[ILUG] Another Scripting Question...

[Michael Armbrecht]

On 30/07/05, Brian Foster <blf at blf.utvinternet.ie> wrote:
>   | From: Michael Armbrecht <michael.armbrecht at gmail.com>
>   | Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:23:50 +0100
>   |
>   |  sed -e 's/notify yes;/notify no; \x0A masters { $IP;}/'
> 
>  interesting!
>  that does seem to work (with GNU sed(1) anyways),
>  albeit I've never(?) before either seen, or seen
>  documented, the `\x' replacement-escape.  after a
>  very _quick_ skim of GNUs `info sed' (GNUs sed(1)
>  man page is (almost) useless  ;-(  ), I still can
>  say I've never, AFAIK, seen it documented .... ;-\

Could it be that it's not a sed replacement escape but just a standard
way to include the hex code into a string; ie. \x for hex, \0 for
octal etc -- non? At least the echo man page was where I got the idea
from...

Michael

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