Re: sed and xentools413

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Martin Neitzel wrote:

> > sed "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/" hunspell-capmain-plus_de_DE[...]
> > sed: 1: "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/": RE error: trailing backslash (\)
>
> (1) Others have already corrected this silently but to make it explicit:
>
> 	The \ need to be \\ within double-quotes.  They simply
> 	vanish when used as above.

This, depeneds on the shell, I think. Only very old shells turn
_every_ '\char' -> 'char'. In POSIX shells, only some chars are
special after a '\' inside double-quotes:
	\\ -> \
	\" -> "
	\` -> `
All other instances of '\char' in a DQ-string are preserved.

-RVP