Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:37:19 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silly sed question Message-ID: <0109260137190E.00588@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20010926073231.C1466@hades.hell.gr> References: <1001421024.3bb078e00bc61@webmail.neomedia.it> <01092509275503.00814@i8k.babbleon.org> <20010926073231.C1466@hades.hell.gr>
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Quoting in csh & derivatives is terrible. There's actually a variable like
"fixquotes" or something you can use in tcsh to make it more sane.
But I've been using csh for a long, long time now (1981? Certainly since
before 1984), and I don't think I'll be switching anytime soon.
When I relocate to heaven I might consider alternatives, but until then . . .
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 00:32, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> wrote:
> > Here's what I do to work around this.
> >
> > In startup scripts, I
> >
> > setenv S '$'
> > setenv Q "'"
> > setenv QQ '"'
> >
> > Then I do things like this with
> >
> > sed -e "/^TARGETS/ s/$Q$S/ blob4$Q/" myfile
> >
> > 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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