[nylug-talk] need sed help

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:26:10PM -0400, Eric Moore wrote:
> "Peter C. Norton" <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:19:20PM -0400, Eric Moore wrote:
> >> sed -e '1s/^[ \t]\+//'
> >
> > What are we escaping here? I'm not sure what we're protecting the +
> > from?
> 
> It gets interpreted as the literal + unless escaped.
> 
> nyarlothotep:~$ echo xxx+++ | sed 's/x+//'
> xx++
> nyarlothotep:~$ echo xxx+++ | sed 's/x\+//'
> +++
> 

Ahhh, lovely. That reversal of the usual meaning of "escape" is
wonderful.

-Peter

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