Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 11:14:40 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <w@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Julian Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), aturetta@stylo.italia.com (Angelo Turetta), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199507230914.LAA00643@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199507142015.WAA13566@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <199507141111.NAA04791@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199507142015.WAA13566@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Julian Stacey writes: > > > whatis `ls -1 /usr/share/man/man1/??.1* | sed -e 's/.*[/]//' -e 's/\.1.*//'` > It's a syntax err ! > sed: 1: "s/.*[/]//": RE error: brackets ([ ]) not balanced > > didnt work in bash csh sh tcsh, or a file invocation for me, > not that it matters ;-) > Julian S 4.4BSD sed is broken. You must quote '/'in brackets, eg. sed -e 's/.*[\/]//' Better solution: $ grep '^..(1)' /usr/share/man/whatis Wolfram
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