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From: David Leverton <levertond@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] escaping variables in sed expressions
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:29:46 +0100
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On Tuesday 15 April 2008 12:14:57 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> There are several option to handle this. I could use a less common
> delimiter or I could escape it: ${D//_/\_} instead of ${D}. I could use a
> sed expression that doesn't suffer from this problem (thanks to dleverton):
>
> sed -ne '\_^prefix = /usr/local_!{p;d}' -e "iprefix = ${D}" -i Makefile
Just to clarify, I didn't think of escaping when I suggested this. Escaping
is probably cleaner, and certainly easier to understand.
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