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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Odd behavior with various (q) array modifiers and non-printable characters (backspace, newline)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:27:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aOBQmEXcLvp3DDAp-R+0MCJorj42fY_iiy3RF7kVXPuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP9c5k=MRwfuR_xNzJjUAMO8ds7Kr=OpM2QMD9+A9hLKHu3iw@mail.gmail.com>

One other thing ...

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 1:29 PM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     $ mysed=( gsed "s/\ba\b/x/" )
>
>     $ echo "aaaa a aaa" | "${mysed[@]}"
>     aaaa x aaa

The string \b does not mean backspace in a GNU sed pattern, it means
"word boundary".  I can't tell from your context whether you think the
replacement was incorrect.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-11 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-11 20:29 Zach Riggle
2021-08-11 21:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-11 21:42   ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-11 23:25     ` Zach Riggle
2021-08-12  0:22       ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-12  0:34         ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-12 13:34         ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-12  0:36       ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-14 15:52     ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-10-19 19:17       ` Zach Riggle
2021-10-21 14:24         ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-10-21 15:23           ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-11 21:27 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]

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