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I'm trying to perform a search and replace on a variable that could potentially contain a \. For example:

#!/bin/ksh

VAR1=$1

VAR2=`printf "$VAR1\n" | sed 's/\\\/--REPLACED--/g'`

The...

I'm trying to do the following:
1) Run a bunch of jobs in the background
2) Determine if any one of them returns with a non-zero exit status

Here's what I've come up with so far:...

I'm writing a script to find the oldest file in a directory. I know this can be done by using ls -rt | tail -1 but these are rather large directories and that can be somewhat slow since the script...

I'm trying to make a backup of a directory tree on Solaris 8. I'm doing this with my own ID, not root. The problem I am running into is when I extract the archive, all files are owned by me and the...

That's exactly what I was looking for. With the sed example, I found it useful to set a variable to an unprintable character first:

CA=`echo '\001'`

and then use that for my delimiter:
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I'm trying to get a partial file path by passing the part I want removed to sed. Sed gets garbled when I try multiple directories (i.e. because of the extra slash).

For example:...