You might also want a copy of O'Relly's 'Mastering Regular
Expressions'
And instead of Amazon check out <http://www.bookpool.com>. They offer
techbooks at probably the best discounts I've seen (O'Reilly at about
35% off), and their shipping charges are very good as well -
especially if you order multiple books (They charge actual cost for
shipping).
On 11 Jun 99, at 10:41, Kenneth Scharf
wrote about Re: grep "\" ... how :
> Yeah I guess I really need to order a copy of the 'camel' book from
> amazon.
>
> --- Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with
> > '/',
> > >> > but how can I get grep to accept '\' as a
> > regular
> > >> > expression (it assumes it to be line continue
> > >> > character, at least from the sh prompt)?
> >
> > -- stuff about tr and sed --
> >
> > >>
> > >> If backslashes will only appear in file paths,
> > you
> > >> are set. If they
> > >> appear in some other contents where they need to
> > be
> > >> kept, then look at a
> > >> more sophisticated tool like sed.
> > >>
> > >This it true... the '\' also appears in printf's
> > >IE: fprintf("\t hello \n");
> >
> > At this point, it might be worth your time to learn
> > a little perl. I
> > know that sed and awk are rather powerful, too, but
> > if you're porting a
> > program, you must be reasonably proficient at
> > programming.
> >
> > you will find a little time learning perl's regular
> > expressions rather
> > useful later on, too.
> >
> > -Michael
> >
> > I (and many others) can give you a little help with
> > a perl script (less
> > than 10 lines) that would correctly modify 99% of
> > your backslashes.
> >
> > Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513
> > Duke University, Dept. of Physics
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
> >
> >
>
>
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