Or use ^, @ or some control character.

Jaromir

Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
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> hi,
> 
> i was thinking about adding acronyms such as W/ and W/O but currently
> wtf(6) uses the slash ("/") character as the command delimiter for the
> sed RE.  since pipe ("|") is not very likely to appear in an acronym and
> must be prefixed with a backslash ("\") anyway, i propose to change the
> RE to allow the slash ("/") character in acronyms. what about the
> following patch?
> 
> Index: wtf
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/games/wtf/wtf,v
> retrieving revision 1.7
> diff -u -r1.7 wtf
> --- wtf	2000/11/21 00:18:52	1.7
> +++ wtf	2003/02/05 22:53:52
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
>  while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
>  	target=`echo $1 | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
>  	ans=`fgrep $target < $acronyms 2>/dev/null \
> -             | sed -ne "/^$target[[:space:]]/s/^$target[[:space:]]*//p"`
> +             | sed -ne "\|^$target[[:space:]]|s|^$target[[:space:]]*||p"`
>  	if [ "$ans" != "" ] ; then
>  		echo "$target: $ans"
>  	else
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> -- 
> -- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>                   --
> --                  <salo@silcnet.org>                   --
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