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| From | dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement |
| Date | 2014-03-03 17:02 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <17peuaxd22.ln2@perseus.wenlock-data.co.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <bngoc5F196mU1@mid.individual.net> <r64cuaxu32.ln2@perseus.wenlock-data.co.uk> <bnj8u3FhmfmU1@mid.individual.net> |
Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote:
>>> How should newlines be escaped for this purpose?
>>
>> Use the shell's backslash-escape expansion ($'what\never').
>
> I guess that a bit more "fun" is needed around the topic "leaning toothpick
> syndrome" to achieve the expected result, isn't it? ;-)
>
> elfring@Sonne:~> XY=$(< $INPUT) &&
> sed "s%# placeholder%${XY//$'\n'/$'\\\\\n'}%" $DRAFT
Oh! You know about alternative delimiters.
> +++++++++++++
> ABC
> XYZ
> *************
Just to add to the, er, amusement: capturing output strips trailing blank
lines:
XY=$(cat << EOF
there are three blank
lines at the end of this
EOF
)
printf 'X%sY\n' "$XY"
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Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 14:00 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2014-03-02 15:49 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 08:38 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-02 16:52 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 17:53 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 20:27 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 16:17 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-03 17:44 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2014-03-04 13:30 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 20:50 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 16:52 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 09:24 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 12:55 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 17:02 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-06 12:02 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-06 18:51 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-06 20:48 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-06 22:59 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-07 06:38 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-07 13:33 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 15:08 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-07 11:23 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 14:43 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-07 17:23 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 19:53 +0000
Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion (was: Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement) dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-08 12:26 +0000
Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion (was: Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-08 20:05 +0000
Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-09 03:48 +0000
Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-09 13:21 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 18:11 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 20:08 +0100
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 20:35 +0000
Re: Which content should be escaped? Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 10:30 +0100
Re: Which content should be escaped? dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-04 14:04 +0000
Re: Which content should be escaped? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-04 17:32 +0000
Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-07 02:47 -0800
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