[X-Unix] Converting Path Type

Fred Terry pfterry at deadtrees.net
Sat May 28 07:34:48 PDT 2005


On 5/27/05 7:38 PM, "PoolMouse" <poolmouse_nyc at mac.com> wrote:

> Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> 
>> [~] %% echo "$ATTACHMENTS"
>> /Users/victor/Documents/Eudora Folder/Attachments Folder
>> [~] %% echo "$ATTACHMENTS" | sed 's/ /\\ /'
>> /Users/victor/Documents/Eudora\ Folder/Attachments Folder
>> 
>> Learn and cherish thy unix tools.
>> 
>> My favourites are sed, awk, make.
>> 
>> V.
> 
> where does one get a clifnote on sed/awk/make?

I think the clifnotes would be

  man sed
  man awk
  man make

Or you could pick up the novels

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/make2/index.html

And as a Un*x guru once said to me, "man is your friend."

pf




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