Nope the ' ' quotes stop the shell interpreting them.
The \'s are required by sed.
Padraig.
Martin Donlon wrote:
> Well, not really. I think the real reason is that you have to backslash
> them to remove their special meaning for the shell:)
>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Paul J Collins wrote:
>>>>>>>> "FD" == Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie> writes:
>>>>>>>> FD> What's with all the backslashes, won't they remove the special
>> FD> meaning of ( and {? I'm a bit confused.
>>>> In sed, as in Emacs, you have to backslash them to *give* them their
>> special meaning.
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