On Wednesday 01 April 2009 01:11:47 David Burns wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > subtitle...fun with sed > > > > I have a list of changes to make to a file... > > > > dc rc > > ------------- ------- > > 15T6145V DELETED > > NATL19502 DELETED > > Q10MR11/FL12V DELETED > > Q1500T3/CL120 DELETED > > > > and things work until I get to the 3rd item which has a forward slash > > and it fails to substitute with commands like below... > > > > sed -i "s%${dc}%${rc}%g" ARsalesorderdetails.csv > > and > > sed -i "s/${dc}/${rc}/g" ARsalesorderdetails.csv > > > > The latter producing error on screen... > > sed: -e expression #1, char 17: unknown option to `s' > > > > While the former simply doesn't complain but doesn't make the change > > either. > > > > Is there a way to coerce sed to identify & replace strings with a / > > inside? > > I don't think it is sed that is giving you a problem: > > $ echo "Q10MR11/FL12V "|sed "s|Q10MR11/FL12V|DELETED|" > DELETED He didn't use | he used /. You've inadvertently offered him the solution though. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines