I'm actually not sure. I had to make 250+ edits to 60 files and I ran
out of time so I went with what worked. My script was more like

line 1 > edit.lst
line 2 >> edit.lst
...
line 30 >> edit.lst

sed -f edit.lst

So be happy yours was short. (-;

Cheers,

Davidm


On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 08:30, Liberty Young wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 08:23, David Mandala wrote:
> > Try this instead of the space. I just had a long fight with sed myself.
> > 
> > edit fix.sh and put in it:
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > echo "s/^foobar[[:blank:]]/foo bar/p" > edit.lst
> > 
> > sed -f edit.lst processedfile > processedfile.fixed
> > 
> > rm -f edit.lst
> > 
> > 
> > Then run it. If I add the ;p I get a different error but the insertion
> > of the "foo bar" works fine.
> > 
> > 
> 
> It works, thanks!
> 
> Still, one would think i could get away with not having to store it in a
> temp. file within a bash script.
> 
> What exactly is bash doing that is mangling the sed statement?
> 
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