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From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: "David S. Jackson" <dsj@sylvester.dsj.net>
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Subject: Re: regex w/ sed and bash expression
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Sep 27 16:38 -0400,
sent by David S. Jackson                                             
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:06:44AM -0400 parv <parv_@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > hi again david,
> > 
> > how about this...
> > 
> > # echo '[ ] popop l' | perl -p -e 's#([\W])#\\$1#g'
> 
> You know, I like Jim's and Fletch's response:
> 
> file=`echo '[foo (bar) baz]' | perl -ne 'print quotemeta $_'`

use of 'quotemeta' function makes the program more readable, i must 
say...  but introduces need of 'print' function due to -n option. 

thanks for sharing as other responses didn't seem to make the list.

in any case, let me remove some junk from my response...

# echo '[ ] popop l' | perl -p -e 's#(\W)#\\$1#g'

- parv

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