RVP wrote: > > In POSIX shells, only some chars are > special after a '\' inside double-quotes: > \\ -> \ > \" -> " > \` -> ` > \$ -> $ > All other instances of '\char' in a DQ-string are preserved.
You are 100% correct, I wrote complete crap. And it would
have been so easy to simply check
$ echo "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/"
s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/
Thanks for reminding me of reality!
Martin
