X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:14:50 -0500 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <4CEE6175 DOT 2030805 AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> <4CEE64C5 DOT 2080007 AT gremwell DOT com> <4CEE6FAF DOT 5080405 AT arcor DOT de> <4CEE742C DOT 2060305 AT gremwell DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9pre) Gecko/20100821 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.3pre In-Reply-To: <4CEE742C.2060305@gremwell.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 11/25/2010 09:35 AM, Alexandre Bezroutchko wrote: >> you can use a different separator in the sed command. >> You can use the following line >> >> echo 123 | sed "s%2%${HOME}%g" > > Right, this will work in most cases. But will fail if $HOME happens to > contains % sign. > The version I have suggested in the previous post is more robust. How often does that happen? -- Andrew DeFaria Can fat people go skinny-dipping? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple