Re: sed and xentools413

[neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost (Martin Neitzel)]

> sed "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/" hunspell-capmain-plus_de_DE[...]
> sed: 1: "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/": RE error: trailing backslash (\)

(1) Others have already corrected this silently but to make it explicit:

	The \ need to be \\ within double-quotes.  They simply
	vanish when used as above.

	The \ could remain single \ within single-quotes.

(2) Also, as others have already noted:  NetBSD/POSIX sed won't grok
the \t as a TAB notation.  A cut-n-paste-safe version would be:

TAB=$(printf '\t')
sed 's/^ *\([0-9]*\)'"$TAB"'.*$/\1/' hunspell-capmain-plus_de_DE[...]

						Martin Neitzel

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