On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:06, Philip S Tellis wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > t=`echo $ORACLE_HOME | sed -e 's/\\\\/\\\\\\\\/g'`
Doesn't work.. it says -e option requires an argument but this thing works.... kind of.. counting number of \ is another headache but managable.. [shridhar@daithan shridhar]$ echo "s/'\\\\'/'\\\\\\\\'/g" >file [shridhar@daithan shridhar]$ t=`echo $ORACLE_HOME| sed -f file ` [shridhar@daithan shridhar]$ echo $t d:\oracle\oracle9 > and start sufferring from backslashitis. Yes. That's what one has to do to make MSDEV exported makefiles machine independent, with the help of some environment variables. Otherwise we were keeping separate build machines..and I have gone thr. hundreds of fscked msdev makefiles for that. Now I know what a royal PITA is.. Shridhar _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
