From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 6: 4:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D399537B40C for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 06:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23819 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2001 15:04:40 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO there) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 24 Sep 2001 15:04:40 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Edwin Groothuis Subject: Re: silly sed question Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:04:39 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010924115816.EE2F637B418@hub.freebsd.org> <20010924224044.Q10641@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20010924224044.Q10641@k7.mavetju.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010924130441.D399537B40C@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 24 September 2001 2:40 pm, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:58:12PM +0200, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > I have a string > > > > TARGETS='blob1 blob2 blob3' > > > > and I wish to use to change this to > > > > TARGETS='blob1 blob2 blob3 blob4' > > > > for a multitude of files. > > > > I am having problems with the quotes > > > > sed -e '/^TARGETS s/'$/blob4'/' myfile > > You should use \' here: > sed -e '/^TARGETS s/\'$/blob4\'/' myfile tried that :- I just get a > prompt -- my .sig is broken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message