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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problems with Sed/awk/grep and line endings Post 302426678 by benwiggy on Wednesday 2nd of June 2010 02:33:26 PM
Old 06-02-2010
It all seems to be working now. Athough I'm still having trouble caused by asterisks in the text. How can I stop the shell from interpreting "*********" as an instruction to display a folder listing?
Last edited by benwiggy; 06-03-2010 at 04:02 AM..
 

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