[lug] is sed broken?

[D. Stimits]

Thanks, this was it, the shell was doing its own thing first, the single
quote worked.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> >>>>> ">" == D Stimits <stimits at idcomm.com> writes:
> 
> >> For regular expression, where bar is unkown, but foo is known, normally
> >> I would think that I could use this:
> >>   foo[=]["].*["]
> 
> Yes, though you don't need the []:
> 
>     foo=".*"
> 
> is a valid sed regexp.
> 
> >> My sed is similar to:
> >>   cat some.file | sed "s/foo[=]["].*["]/foo="new_value"/" -
> 
> You're experiencing a sed/sh quoting interaction problem.
> Use single quotes around the sed expression and you'll be ok.
> This worked for me:
> 
>     fleche. cat /tmp/X
>     foo="bar"
>     fleche. sed 's/foo=".*"/foo="new_value"/' < /tmp/X
>     foo="new_value"
> 
> Tom
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