explanation point bash

Quoting and escaping is really an important way to influence the way, Bash treats your input. There are three recognized types:

* per-character escaping using a backslash: \$stuff * weak quoting with double-quotes: "stuff" * strong quoting with single-quotes: 'stuff'

Quoting and escaping is really an important way to influence the way, Bash treats your input. There are three recognized types:

* per-character escaping using a backslash: \$stuff * weak quoting with double-quotes: "stuff" * strong quoting with single-quotes: 'stuff'

ok, having the following problem: using vim editor in fedora 12 this scripts function is to replace "replace/word --> word replaced" in the file "testing" using sed over ssh .

Okay. My understanding (partly from http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials...es-in-Bash.htm) and other sources is that single quotes in bash (') mean that all special characters are ignored.

So I would expect that:

Code: grep '140|150' test.txt will match 140 or 150. Instead it errors. I turns out I have to escape the followinf characters to use them.

Code: ?

I recently had trouble with some regex on the command-line, and found that for matching a backslash, different numbers of characters can be used. This number depends on the quoting used for the regex (none, single quotes, double quotes).

I have a directory "a b c/x y z"

I would like to assign it an environment variable so I can "cd" to it, as in:

A="a b c/x y z";export A

so that I can "cd $A".

I've tried single quotes, double quotes, backslashes and permutations thereof, but NOTHING works.:wall:

Any help would be graciously accepted.

I've found this script which seems very promising to solve my issue:

To search and replace many different database passwords in many different (.php, .pl, .cgi, etc.) files across my filesystem.

I've had the same issue today and found a somewhat safer workaround (I think). Uninstalling bash didn't seem right.Scimmia was right, pacman -Qo /usr/bin/bash said no package owned that file, and ls -l /usr/bin/bash showed it was only a symlink to /bin/bash, so I simply deleted it "rm /usr/bin/bash" and re-installed my stuff.

I want to used sed or some other linux command to convert special characters in XML files.

Here is an example: -bash-3.2$ echo "P&G" P&G

Now I want to change the "&" to "&" so I run: -bash-3.2$ echo "P&G" | sed -e "s/&/&/ig" P&G

I got the result I want, but if someone runs the conversion program again,