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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unsure of sed notation (nu\\t.\*) Post 302540450 by czar21 on Wednesday 20th of July 2011 03:43:15 PM
Old 07-20-2011
Unsure of sed notation (nu\\t.\*)
This piece of code is in a shell script I'm trying to modify to run on my system.

Code:
sed s:nu\\t.\*:"nu=0"

It's clearly a substitute script which replaces nu\\t.\* with nu = 0.

What exactly does
Code:
nu\\t.\*

demarcate though-- I thought it was just the previous nu = xxxxx (which existed and is getting overwritten) but the double forward slashes and then the t confuse me.

Thanks in advance.
 

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fixnt

fixnt(1)							      Debian								  fixnt(1)

NAME

       fixnt - Filter for the Windows NT postscript printer driver.

SYNOPSIS

       fixnt < BADFILE.ps > GOODFILE.ps

DESCRIPTION

       The  Windows  NT  postscript  driver has a tendency to make broken postscript files, that are incompatible with psutils.  fixnt is a filter
       that fixes these problems, allowing the use of psnup(1).

       The filter takes the broken postscript file on stdin, and outputs a fixed postscript file on stdout.  It has no other form  for	invocation
       and takes no options on the command-line.

OPTIONS

       fixnt  takes no options.

BUGS

       fixnt does not check for NTPSOct94.  For a workaround, use a sed(1) command to replace 'NTPSOct94' with 'NTPSOct95', like so:
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       fixnt   was   written   by   Holger   Bauer   <Holger.Bauer@topmail.de>,  Michael  Rath	<rath@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>,  and  Akim  Demaille
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REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to the Authors, but avoid sending large postscript files.

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SEE ALSO

       psnup(1), sed(1)

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