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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed add special character Post 302980653 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 31st of August 2016 07:55:18 AM
Old 08-31-2016
Consider also:
Code:
echo test.test.test|sed 's/\./\\&/2
s/$/ */'

producing the output:
Code:
test.test\.test *

The 2 (or any number n) flag (specifying the nth match of the BRE in the search pattern) in the substitute command being one of the few extensions that are available in sed above and beyond the standard ed and ex editing commands capabilities.
 

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qpid-python-test(1)						   User Commands					       qpid-python-test(1)

NAME

       qpid-python-test - run tests of the python QPID library for a broker

SYNOPSIS

       qpid-python-test [options] PATTERN ...

DESCRIPTION

       Run tests matching the specified PATTERNs.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -l, --list
	      list tests instead of executing them

       -b BROKER, --broker=BROKER
	      run tests against BROKER (default localhost)

       -f FILE, --log-file=FILE
	      log output to FILE

       -v LEVEL, --log-level=LEVEL
	      only display log messages of LEVEL or higher severity: DEBUG, WARN, ERROR (default WARN)

       -c CATEGORY, --log-category=CATEGORY
	      log only categories matching CATEGORY pattern

       -m MODULES, --module=MODULES
	      add module to test search path

       -i IGNORE, --ignore=IGNORE
	      ignore tests matching IGNORE pattern

       -I IFILE, --ignore-file=IFILE
	      ignore tests matching patterns in IFILE

       -H, --halt-on-error
	      halt if an error is encountered

       -t, --time
	      report timing information on test run

       -D DEFINE, --define=DEFINE
	      define test parameters

SEE ALSO

       For more information on qpid-python-test please check the QPID wiki at http://qpid.apache.org.

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