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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting one more issue last- sed Post 302543303 by agama on Saturday 30th of July 2011 09:37:25 PM
Old 07-30-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by mirni
You have a space there between single quote and backtick. That causes error -- sed complains about unterminated s command. There is no need for echo or escaping quotes or comma.
Try this:
Nice catch -- I completely missed the space.

Quote:
Code:
sed  's/","\*\*/\x07/' filename > filename2

Thanks -- I read the man page and found no reference to being able to use \xXX. I tried \0xXX which didn't work and am glad to be able to take something new away from this thread.

Quote:
You can insert a control character with crtl-v on the command line, no need to save it and use vi
True. I omitted that as the OP indicated it wasn't working from a script.
 

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lessecho

LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME

       lessecho - expand metacharacters

SYNOPSIS

       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       lessecho  is  a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.  But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
       character, which by default is a backslash.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -ex    Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.  If x is "-", no escape char is used and  arguments  con-
	      taining metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.

       -ox    Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.

       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

       -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.  By default, no characters are considered metachars.

       -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.

       -fn    Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.

       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted

SEE ALSO

       less(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.

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