diffing special chars

FWIW, I'd put the sed expression into single quotes:

$ echo "fred\ wuz\ hier." | sed 's/\\ / /g'
fred wuz hier.

I've found that when you're dealing with spaces in filenames, sh just
can't handle it. perl is my favorate way to deal with this.

rna

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, der.hans wrote:

> diff -a doesn't do what I need. Normally I avoid sed/awk :), but that's
> not bad. However, it isn't working like I'd expect.
>
> sh-2.01$ echo "fred\ wuz\ hier." | sed s/\\\ /\ /
> fred\ wuz\ hier.
>
> Two backslashes give me an error about an unterminated s.
>
> I would still prefer ways to get "find" and "tar" to use the same method
> for printing unprintable characters and spaces at the same time.
>
> Thanks for the pointer,
>
> der.hans
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