Re: A Tricky quoting problem

From: Peter J. Acklam (pjacklam_at_online.no)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: 30 May 2004 10:37:03 +0200

"Alon" <noSpam@hotmail.com> wrote:

> The following does not work:
> alias catXML "cat \!* | sed -e 's/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g' "
>
> I want that eventually:
> catXML= cat \!* | sed -e 's/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g'

How about

> alias catXML 'cat \!* | sed -e "s/[ ]*[\"][ ]*/ABC/g"'
> alias catXML
   cat !* | sed -e "s/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g"

or, with tcsh,

> set backslash_quote
> alias catXML 'cat \!* | sed -e \'s/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g\''
> alias catXML
   cat !* | sed -e 's/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g'

Peter 

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