Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:47:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Harrison <ah54@httpsite.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?adrian=20kok?= <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sed to remove pattern ',' Message-ID: <XFMail.20030410124705.ah54@httpsite.com> In-Reply-To: <20030410163001.63667.qmail@web21201.mail.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On 10-Apr-2003, adrian kok wrote message "sed to remove pattern ','" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > data: 'peter','30 Woodroad, CA','USA' > 'coral','110 Foreest','UK' > > to > 'peter|30 Woodroad, CA|USA' > 'coral|110 Foreest|UK' > > and I used the following but failed > > sed -e 's/\','/\|/g > For one thing, you don't have a trailing quote. Even still, it's easier just to use double quotes in a case like this: # echo \',\' | sed "s/','/|/g" | # ~~ Andy Harrison ah##@httpsite.com ICQ: 123472 AIM/Y!: AHinMaine [full headers for details] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBPpWgB1PEkLgodAWVAQHE6AP/fyQocZK0y21EJmis+Ob7YuCZY9gbbOD/ ARF4rTdo9gL0/5xcbTITqSt3kMeH/XQm7qFoiS+KnzCdYaJwns85wjvITOjBWq3x XBzBDiNP+Td5DxDlcZX0BUQ/HMTw7nYL7stoi4iC1vu2Y90XiohBzHFlH1I8dzd1 HDeiwvZ+daU= =8FrY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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