Re: exmh (tcl? sh?) quoting question.

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Shaul Karl wrote:
> 
> The following is an bad attempt to use exmh `Apply command to body'
> feature.
> However I believe it boils down to a tcl or a sh quoting question.
> 
> What I am trying to do is to filter a message by applying a filter to
> its body.
> 
> Now this filter
> 
>     sed -n "s/Inst//p" $file > /tmp/apt-get-update
> 
> works. However this one
> 
>     sed -n "s/Inst\(.*\)(.*/\1/p" $file > /tmp/apt-get-update
> 
> gives the following error message:
> 
>     bin/sed: -e expression #1, char 10: Unterminated `s' command
> 
> But why? The line is perfectly legal when issued from the command
> prompt.

  I'd try single quotes instead of double quotes. the '(' or '*' are
probably interpreted by shell (or whatever is interpreting the line).
strings in single quotes are usualy not touched by interpreter (shells,
perl, ...)

	erik