RE: tlug: sed ?

[Thomas Bätzler <tbaetzle@example.com>]

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>tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
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>After the great help a couple of weeks ago on using sed to strip
>headers from email I decided to try to learn a little more about
>it. So, I ordered the O'Reilly 'sed & awk' book and got to work.
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>The problem is, sometime things don't work as advertised. For
[...]
>sed -e "s$A$pattern$A$replacement$A" $file
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>When I try to use it though I get the error:
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>sed: Unknown option to 's'
[...]

I don't know much about sed, but you might want to replace 
those $A with simple forward slashes.

Ciao,
Thomas
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