On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 16:34, Robert Anderson wrote: > However, note that _any_ new choice of delimiter will not only fail for > the case of the chosen character, but will also fail for the characters > '@' and '\' which are always metacharacters on the RHS of a sed > expression. I've seen '@' in particular in pathnames out in the wild; > it's a good prefix to get files to sort to the top of an 'ls'. > > With a preprocessing step, you can solve all three problems > simultaneously (arbitrary delimiter, '@', and '\').
Gah. s/@/&/. Or s/@/\\&/, actually. :) Bob
