Re: A Tricky quoting problem

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

Date: 30 May 2004 16:20:33 +0200

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

> It worked for you because you did "set backslash_quote" before
> running the command. Try the following:
>
> > unset backslash_quote
> > set backslash_quote ; alias catXML 'cat \!* | sed -e \'s/[ ]*["][ ]*/ABC/g\''

Ah, of course. I messed up. The change of "backslash_quote" does
not take effect that early.

But what's the problem? Can't you just set "backslash_quote"
somewhere once and for all?

You could also use ksh/bash/etc.:

   alias catXML='sed -e "s/[ ]*[\"][ ]*/ABC/g"'

Peter 

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Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam@online.no - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam

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