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Old 07-25-2005
sed command for using with back slashes
hi all,


im trying to use a sed command to remove all occurenes of \p\g

what i used so far is : sed 's!\p\g!!g' file

but this doesnt work ?

Any ideas, thanks for helping.
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Old 07-25-2005
Not very good with sed, but you could try this:
Code:
sed 's/\\p\\g//g' file

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Old 07-25-2005
sweet, worked good for me.
 
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