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Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement

From Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.unix.programmer
Subject Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement
Date 2014-03-02 20:08 +0100
Message-ID <531381A4.1020704@web.de> (permalink)
References <bngoc5F196mU1@mid.individual.net> <20140302095342.219@kylheku.com>

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> Unix already has a mechanism for interpolating variables into multi-line
> text, called a "here document".

Thanks for your suggestion.


> You can have newlines in the variables that are substituted.

This detail is nice.


> Remember to escape dollar signs in the here doc. It has to follow the
> rules for a here doc.

This implementation detail does not fit to my expectations for the replacement
input file so far.
How would you achieve the corresponding escaping for dollar characters instead
of line breaks (and slashes eventually)?

Regards,
Markus

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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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