[Techtalk] filtering command line

Miriam English mim at miriam-english.org
Wed Jun 13 23:22:32 UTC 2007


Hi Michelle,

Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Try:
>     's|\\|/|g'
> 
> and it just works... Had to fight several times with it.

and also:

 > What about:
 >
 > if [ $1 = "" ]; then
 > 	wine c:\irfanview\i_view32.exe
 > else
 > 	wine c:\irfanview\i_view32.exe "$(echo "z:$@" |sed 's|\\|/|g')"
 > fi
 >
 > which is much shorter.

Neat! I'll file this away for future use. Thank you Michelle.

Many years ago I used to use a non-interactive editor in scripts to 
perform all kinds of magic on my Amiga computers. It is nice to see how 
to do similar stuff on linux.

I'm grateful.

Best wishes,

	- Miriam

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