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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed: how do I insert a \ in my replace Post 302878087 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 4th of December 2013 02:00:45 PM
Old 12-04-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Do you mean something like:
Code:
echo "bla 'blabla\" bla" | sed "s/['\"]/\\\&/g"

If not, please provide input and output samples
For quoting quotes I am more used to
Code:
echo 'bla '\''blabla" bla' | sed 's/['\''"]/\\&/g'

that even works with a C-shell.
Rule: prefer the safer 'ticks' over the "quotes";
replace each ' within 'ticks' with '\''
so it becomes a \' escaped by the shell (outside the 'ticks').
 

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ppi::token::bom

PPI::Token::BOM(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					PPI::Token::BOM(3)

NAME

       PPI::Token::BOM - Tokens representing Unicode byte order marks

INHERITANCE

	 PPI::Token::BOM
	 isa PPI::Token
	     isa PPI::Element

DESCRIPTION

       This is a special token in that it can only occur at the beginning of documents.  If a BOM byte mark occurs elsewhere in a file, it should
       be treated as PPI::Token::Whitespace.  We recognize the byte order marks identified at this URL:
       <http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM>

	   UTF-32, big-endian	  00 00 FE FF
	   UTF-32, little-endian  FF FE 00 00
	   UTF-16, big-endian	  FE FF
	   UTF-16, little-endian  FF FE
	   UTF-8		  EF BB BF

       Note that as of this writing, PPI only has support for UTF-8 (namely, in POD and strings) and no support for UTF-16 or UTF-32.  We support
       the BOMs of the latter two for completeness only.

       The BOM is considered non-significant, like white space.

METHODS

       There are no additional methods beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes.

SUPPORT

       See the support section in the main module

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2011-02-26							PPI::Token::BOM(3)
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