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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Small REINPLACE_CMD headache...
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--On Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:27 AM +0100 Danny Pansters 
<danny@ricin.com> wrote:

> I get Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
>
> I wanted to
> @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
> 	"s,\"machine/soundcard.h\",<sys/soundcard.h>," file
>
> It seems to go wrong there, what's the proper way to escape quotes in a
> s/x/y/  like this? It's included in double quotes (and wrong), I want to
> change it to  a <blah> include.
>
Since you're using commas as the field limiters, wouldn't it be:

@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
      "s,"machine/soundcard.h",<sys/soundcard.h>," file?

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