Re: [Bug-ed] Fw: Re: Help with ed command

[John Cowan]

Sonal Kumari scripsit:

> Is there any way in which we write the command using such a delimiter
> which works irrespective of the special symbols present in the
> replacement string.

In the nature of things, there can't be.  If either the pattern or the
replacement string contains a given character, then it can't be used
to delimit it.  If you are inserting the replacement string from a
shell variable, and it might contain any characters whatsoever,
then you must preprocess the contents of the variable to insert a
backslash before whatever character you choose as a delimiter.
In any case, you will get a surprise if the replacement string
contains a & if you don't change it to \& first.

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