Re: A Tricky quoting problem

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

Date: 30 May 2004 13:18:59 +0200

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

> How can you use the set backslash_quote in the same command as the alias
> catXML?
>
> I've tried the following:
> set backslash_quote ; alias catXML xxx
>
> And it didn't work.

How did it not work? It works for me:

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

Peter 

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