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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:32:31 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: silly sed question
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Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> wrote:
>=20
> Here's what I do to work around this.
>=20
> In  startup scripts, I
>=20
> setenv S '$'
> setenv Q "'"
> setenv QQ '"'
>=20
> Then I do things like this with
>=20
> sed -e "/^TARGETS/ s/$Q$S/ blob4$Q/" myfile
>=20
> Good luck.

Seems to work nicely that way.  Thanks!
I'll stick to zsh for the moment though.
Years of working with Bourne shells have made me reluctant to switch.

-giorgos

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