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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [help]Delete or replace text in multiple file and multiple directory Post 302322719 by rubin on Thursday 4th of June 2009 11:51:30 AM
Old 06-04-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nejc
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The error returned is:
Code:
line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('

I assume the problem is with the the character '. Am I right? Any ideas how I can fix this?

Thanks
It's not only the single quotes ' , but other special characters as well, such as \ " . , that need to be escaped too, and there are too many of them ..., better use a regex:

Code:
sed "s:<?php echo '<script language='JavaScript'>.*<\\\/script>'; ?>::" file > temp

I assumed that there are no other valid records with the same content in the corner tags, as the line above has.
 

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set_color

set_color(1)							       fish							      set_color(1)

NAME

       set_color - set_color - set the terminal color

set_color - set the terminal color
   Synopsis
       set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR]

   Description
       Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple,
       cyan, white and normal.

       o -b, --background Set the background color

       o -c, --print-colors Prints a list of all valid color names

       o -h, --help Display help message and exit

       o -o, --bold Set bold or extra bright mode

       o -u, --underline Set underlined mode

       o -v, --version Display version and exit

       Calling set_color normal will set the terminal color to whatever is the default color of the terminal.

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       Not all terminal emulators support all these features. This is not a bug in set_color but a missing feature in the terminal emulator.

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