Re: sed - escape character

Rather than focus on a solution for this specific situation, what is the goal? Is the \\MCBELL4\... stuff constant or variable? Is any of it constant? Is this ultimately being called from an HLL program (like RPG, maybe), making it possible to utilize a more elegant solution?

Typically what I would do for a situation like this one, is to create a script in the IFS that handles all the escape character stuff.... Or maybe I'd utilize sed's -f <filename> feature, and just do something like:

QSH CMD('sed -f /path/subscscript < infile > outfile)

but these things may not fit your need. Or they might. Caan you describe to us the parameters so we may make a recommendation?

Too many people on lists like this say, I tried to drive this screw into a brick with this hammer, and it's not working for me. How can I make this hammer work?

"hockchai Lim" <lim.hock-chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

it almost looks like the backslash escape character is being processed
twice
(once by qsh and once by sed).

All I know at the moment is that I fed it this
:\\MCBELL4\BossTemp\NewAccount\LHCTEST2ERROR.csv and it splited out
this:
<MCBELL4BossTempNewAccountLHCTEST2ERROR.csv>.

"Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mailman.35068.1300747685.2702.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...

You should be able to get the effect you want my changing quotes (")

to

apostrophes (').

It's the shell, not sed, that's processing the escapes.

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