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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Shell script: Cut / (slash) character in string Post 929 by Neo on Saturday 27th of January 2001 08:38:55 PM
Old 01-27-2001
\\

You must use a \ in front of the \ to make it a \\ in your search and replace functions because of the special nature (meta) of the \ char. Example in vi editor:

Code:
:%s/\\$//

The fragment above says "search for the \ at the end of a line and replace with nothing" Smilie

Note. that I've not tested the fragment above and it might need some more tweaking to work.

[Edited by Neo on 01-29-2001 at 05:03 PM]
 

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gd_parent_fragment(3)						      GETDATA						     gd_parent_fragment(3)

NAME
gd_parent_fragment -- retrieve the parent fragment of a fragment in a dirfile SYNOPSIS
#include <getdata.h> int gd_parent_fragment(const DIRFILE *dirfile, int fragment_index); DESCRIPTION
The gd_parent_fragment() function queries a dirfile(5) database specified by dirfile and returns the index of the fragment which contains the INCLUDE directive for the fragment indexed by fragment_index. Since the primary format specification fragment is not included in any other fragment, passing zero for fragment_index will result in an error. RETURN VALUE
On success, gd_parent_fragment() returns the index of the specified fragment's parent. On error, gd_parent_fragment() returns -1 and sets the dirfile error to a non-zero value. Possible error values are: GD_E_BAD_DIRFILE The supplied dirfile was invalid. GD_E_BAD_INDEX The supplied index was out of range, or was equal to zero. The dirfile error may be retrieved by calling gd_error(3). A descriptive error string for the last error encountered can be obtained from a call to gd_error_string(3). SEE ALSO
dirfile(5), gd_include(3), gd_open(3), gd_fragmentname(3), gd_nfragments(3) Version 0.7.0 21 July 2010 gd_parent_fragment(3)
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