Re: escape characters in sed

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
> > Hans du Plooy wrote:
> > > william pursell wrote:
> > > > Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you
> > > > meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' 
> > > Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part...
> > >
> > > > which will replace occurences
> > > > of "\)" with a single space
> > > Not what I had intended, I just wanted to replace ) with a space.  
> > > Actually I wanted to replace the ( with a space and get rid of the 
> > > trailing ),
> > So, you'd want to use:
> >
> >   sed -e 's/(/ /' -e 's/)//'
>
> any reason not to do 
>
> sed -e 's/(/ /;s/)//'
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No, except perhaps clarity.  And, the fact I was not aware that you 
could do it that way. ;)

Bob

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