On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:28:45AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I meant you can not compare echo with sed
You're missing the point: it's not sed that expands things. Run 'set -x' in your shell and run those examples. You'll see the command after the expantion by the shell. (Use 'set +x' to stop that noisy tracing) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org