regex tab in sed

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 9 16:41:53 UTC 2008


On Monday 09 June 2008 17:47, Lombard, David N wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 05:23:22PM +0200, Alexandre Conrad wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm having a hard time to figure out how to represent the tab character 
> > in my regular expression pattern using sed:
> 
> Putting a tab directly into the script works fine--but does require
> care in editing...

ash awaits a hero who will implement a $'...\t...' bash-ism
--
vda



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