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How to insert ESC control characters in a file in FreeBSD?
I want to enclose Fortran comments with two escape commands (ESC+E and ESC+F).
This implies detecting the comment that begins with ! until end of line, and prefixing it with ESC+E and suffixing it ...
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Convert JSON with raw characters in string
Had a problem with a tool that was generating illegal JSON.
Some of the JSON strings contained characters in the range 00-1f. So I wanted to convert these characters to correctly escaped valued \...
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Bash converting path names for sed so they escape [duplicate]
I'm having a problem with a script. It is meant to change a value in a file called %DIR% so that it becomes a path name. The problem is the slashes in the directory name upset sed, so I get weird ...
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How do I properly escape this long su + sed command?
#!/bin/bash
wineuser=tom
su $wineuser -c "sed -i '$ialias ptgui "wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/PTGui/PTGui.exe\"' /usr/people/$wineuser/config/cshrc.csh"
The acutal line inserted to tom's cshrc....
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How to escape a single quote? [duplicate]
This works fine:
sed -i 's# @driver.find_element(:xpath, "//a\[contains(@href,##' temp_spec.rb
against a source of
@driver.find_element(:xpath, "//a[contains(@href,'change_district')]").click
I ...
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