on 19:08 Fri 18 Mar, Joao Ferreira gmail (joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:59 +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:46:04 +0000 > > Joao Ferreira gmail <joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >jmf@squeeje:~$ sed s/bbbb.*/bbbb:$PWD/ text.txt > > >sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unknown option to `s' > > > > Hello, > > > > this is because $PWD gets expanded by shell before sed gets called, so what > > actually gets executed is: > > > > sed s/bbb.*/bbbb:/home/myself/ text.txt > > > > ...which is obviously syntactically incorrect. > > > > To get result you want, try using different separator character than /, for > > example the comma, or underscore: > > > > $ sed s,bbb.*,bbbb:$PWD, text.txt > > $ sed s_bbb.*_bbbb:$PWD_ text.txt > > Thanks a lot... I did not know that was possible... > > I used the # separator. Worked just fine
Please note that '#' is a valid filesystem name character. There are relatively few values which are safely excludable. In your case this shouldn't be a problem, but in the general case (I'm working on a script that needs to do path parsing) it's a bit of a pain. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110318230526.gk3...@altaira.krellpowersys.exo
