Steve Kemp <[email protected]> wrote: > Because you've got nested quotes. e.g. This fails: > sed -i "s/"bob"/"chris"/g" /tmp/blah
IMO that's a bad example, because it's not clear that the quotes surrounding bob and chris are processed by the shell and therefore never seen by sed. It "seems" to work even though you (correctly) say it doesn't. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

