Hello all Unix guru's
I got myself a problem
I need for a weblet a function that first check if teststring is already
inserted in a file, if not it will be inserted. This to prevent that
reloading will cause repeated insertions.
due to conversions ( Escape sequences) there can be a
variable amount of whitespace between 2 parts of the teststring
therefore i used \W*
grep "1.2.3.4/24\W*eth0" file does function but :
now i wanted to change the space in teststring to \W* to be able to
test.
<PROBLEM>
cat teststring | sed 's/ /\\W*/g'
</PROBLEM>
this results however in 1.2.3.4W*eth0 and not in 1.2.3.4\W*eth0
I don't succeed in inserting the escape character.
experimenting with even more \\ :(
Do I something wrong here, or is this a bug in the Eigerstein Sed -
V 2.05 ?
I cannot change the format in the file variable as this is defined by
someone else given..
I could split the teststring in parts and test against
$part1\W*$part2 etc. but this would mean changing several other
programms that functions ok.
sigh never cleanup a programm that functions
Thanks
Eric Wolzak
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/ericw
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