I should RTF Mail before becoming a smart arse I guess:)
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:10:04PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
> 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:)
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