On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:28:06PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> sed can do it all. Really. Notes:
>
> - I separate re_quote() cause I think it can be useful in other places.
> - I think re_quote() is (basic) regex complete.
> - I don't care if the interpreter is (or seems) nonexistant, as that
> shouldn't be a runtime error.
> - I'm sure sed may die horribly if you try to feed it a 9GB oneline
> file. However, if so, it should not produce any output anyway. ;)
> If this would ever be considered a real problem, dd(1) would help
> (as espie already mentioned).
>
> re_quote() { sed 's/\([]^$*.\\[]\)/\\\1/g'; }
>
> interpreter=$(
> sed -n 's/^#![[:space:]]*\(.*\)/\1 /p;q' "${daemon}" |
> re_quote)
> pexp="$interpreter$pexp"
Ah, but what happens when you run that thru a pure binary file that
spans a single line ?...
