Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:02:02 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: "David S. Jackson" <dsj@sylvester.dsj.net> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: regex w/ sed and bash expression Message-ID: <20010928020202.A3002@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20010927163858.A2643@sylvester.dsj.net>; from dsj@sylvester.dsj.net on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:38:58PM -0400 References: <20010927002134.A30622@sylvester.dsj.net> <20010927010644.A27260@moo.holy.cow> <20010927163858.A2643@sylvester.dsj.net>
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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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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