[mdlug] GNU sed weirdness

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Jeff Hanson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Raymond McLaughlin
> <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
>> Looking again, it might not be much help. Sorry.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the tip but I thought of that and came to the same conclusion.

Actually using % instead of / might make the delimiters stand out a bit
better, and would work as well.

I'm still looking at your command string. I'm not sure if or how word
wrap is messing with it.

sed -n 's/\(.*\)\\\(.*\)\.idx/'"\"$compress_exe\" $compress_opts
\"$target_dir\\"'\2'".$compress_ext"'\" \"\1\\2.*\"/p' $1


The first and second double quotes are in the construct: "\"

Are you quoting the backslash, or backslash escaping the second double
quote? if the latter, where is the "mate" to the first double quote?