Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:59:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Oliver Wilson <owilson@CAM.ORG> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SED remove from live file Message-ID: <199707100459.WAA10065@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <33C43163.41C67EA6@cam.org> References: <33C3F7B9.5636@enta.net> <33C43163.41C67EA6@cam.org>
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Oliver Wilson writes:
> Here a way using a script with the following contents...
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ksh
> #
> for fname in $*
> do
> sed "s/\.//" $fname > $fname"x"
> mv $fname"x" $fname
> done
> #
>
> ...and is executed as follows:
> $ <scriptname> <filename expression>
>
> This script will remove "." 's from one or multiple files.
> ...I think there's a bug in FreeBSD 'sed' implementation ;)
I think you need to escape the backslash in the quoted expression on
your sed command. You're telling sed to remove ".", which matches any
character. Try
sed "s/\\.//" $fname > $fname"x"
--
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