sed question

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

hi,

  please reply to the list only...


here is my script fragment:

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#!/bin/bash

#this doesn't work...
echo -e "\n\nThis doesn't work.\n\n"
old_summary=`echo "Previous glitches and inconsistencies were due to a missing / at the end of the baseurl...   ,.#*$+%*$&#+(*={_})"`
echo "Summary -->${old_summary}<--"

result=`echo "summary: \"\"" | sed -e "s/^summary: .*$/summary: \"${old_summary}\"/"`

echo -e "Result -->${result}<--\n\n"


#this does work...
echo -e "\n\nThis does work.\n\n"
old_summary=`echo "Previous glitches and inconsistencies were due to a missing / at the end of the baseurl...   ,.#*$+%*$&#+(*={_})" | sed -e 's#/#\\\/#g'`
echo "Summary -->${old_summary}<--"

result=`echo "summary: \"\"" | sed -e "s/^summary: .*$/summary: \"${old_summary}\"/"`

echo -e "Result -->${result}<--\n\n"
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here are the results:


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This doesn't work.


Summary -->Previous glitches and inconsistencies were due to a missing / at the end of the baseurl...   ,.#*$+%*$&#+(*={_})<--
sed: -e expression #1, char 89: unknown option to `s'
Result --><--




This does work.


Summary -->Previous glitches and inconsistencies were due to a missing \/ at the end of the baseurl...   ,.#*$+%*$&#+(*={_})<--
Result -->summary: "Previous glitches and inconsistencies were due to a missing / at the end of the baseurl...   ,.#*$+%*$summary: ""#+(*={_})"<--

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  my question is about why i need to pre-process the summary to escape the
slash?  i use other characters in the summaries without issues just that
slash causes problems...  ?????

  i do expect a backslash to present problems to scripts but not a simple
forwards slash...   hmm...


  songbird