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Re: Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file


On 11/25/2010 09:35 AM, Alexandre Bezroutchko wrote:
you can use a different separator in the sed command.
You can use the following line

echo 123 | sed "s%2%${HOME}%g"

Right, this will work in most cases. But will fail if $HOME happens to contains % sign.
The version I have suggested in the previous post is more robust.
How often does that happen?
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