Hi !
It is for every thing which is a part of regular expression characters/ shell
programming which have special meaning in reference to the same...
for adding a " try adding \"
this is also valid for all characters (for e.g. \! or \' etc. )
-gaurav.
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> in sed try escaping to get the quote interpreted literally. To escape you
> need to precede the character you want to escape with \ (e.g. \")
>
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:44:54 +0000 Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> >Hello all.
> >
> >Now i have a question for the group.
> >
> >I want to insert a " as the first char of a line and add another at
> >the end of a line. The command is ass follows.
> >
> >ls -al / | awk '{ print $9 }'
> >
> >That shows the root filesystem with one directory per line as
> >follows.
> >
> >bin
> >boot
> >burner
> >cdrom
> >dev
> >etc
> >floppy
> >
> >Now what i want is
> >
> >"bin"
> >"boot"
> >
> >I have tried ed, sed and awk, as soon as i try to define a " it gets
> >interpreted as part of the shell command and therfore causes bash to
> >complane.
> >
> >Now i know it can be done and i am probably overlooking the most
> >simple of things, it just has me stumped and i'm up the creek without
> >a paddle at the minute.
> >
> >Who can solve this one.??
> >
> >--
> >Regards Richard
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> >
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