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On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:13:29PM -0400, Ricker, William wrote: > > $ echo "hello my bold friend" |sed 's/bold/\033[1mbold\033[0m/g' > > hello my bold33[1mboldbold33[0m friend > > I suspect echo protects youu fromm escapes unless specified with -e \e. > > The octal is better with sed/perl filter. Note that in the pipe above, the execution of echo has terminated prior to sed running, and the string emitted by echo contains no escapes, neither before nor after echo treats it. The octal is in the sed command, and arrives in sed unaltered by the shell. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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