diffing special chars

[der.hans]

Am 24. Aug, 2000 schwäzte Robert Ambrose so:

> 
> FWIW, I'd put the sed expression into single quotes:
> 
> $ echo "fred\ wuz\ hier." | sed 's/\\ / /g'

DOOOOHHHH!!!! Massive hemhoraging brainfart!!!!

Thanks for the illumination :)

ciao,

der.hans
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