Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin <at> googlemail.com> writes: > No problem, thanks for worrying about it. Are there any particular > recommendations about/against problematic separator characters in the 's' > command? I was going to use an '@'.
The Autoconf manual suggests using 's|||' rather than 's,,,', since ',' and '@' can both occur in unquoted filenames, but '|' cannot. -- Eric Blake