On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:39:42AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:14:56PM -0400, David P James wrote: > > William Ballard wrote: > > > -e 's/href=\//href=http:\/\/google.com\//g' \ > > ^ > > Does this line actually work? To me it looks like you're missing an > > escape before the second '/' before the second 'href'. > > Yes, it actually works. The unescaped / are delimiters for the s///. > It's trashy write-only code -- but it works.
FWIW, the next time you can write this instead: -e 's,href=/,href=http://google.com/,g' ... or pretty much any other sensible delimiter of your choice. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
