On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:11:32PM +0800, Deeþan Chakravarthy wrote:
> $sed -e "s|foo|/bar|g" foo
>
> The above command works fine. You can use any character as delimiter. I
> chose to use | .
My favourite alternative to / is comma, it doesn't need you to hit shift
and you are not often searching for it.
Quiz.
1. what words from /usr/share/dict/words are valid sed expressions?
syzygy is one!
2. craft a sed expression to search for valid sed expressions from
/usr/share/dict/words
Matt
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