Fontconfig: Simplified sed command

[lizardo@…]

The following sed command (from Fontconfig installation page) sed -i.orig \

-e "/CATALOG \/etc\/sgml\/OpenSP-1.5.1.cat/d" \ /etc/sgml/catalog \ /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat

can be simplified to sed -i.orig \

-e "\%CATALOG /etc/sgml/OpenSP-1.5.1.cat%d" \ /etc/sgml/catalog \ /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat

[kpfleming@…]

The final '%' in your proposed command is not escaped; is that an error?

[Randy McMurchy]

Oh wow, this is much simpler.

It removes two whole backslashes from the command.

:-)

[lizardo@…]

Kevin: No, it's used this way. See this example: cat << "EOF" | sed '\%line1%d' line1 line2 EOF It will print "line2". Actually, It's not a shell escape, but a sed syntax. The single quotes disabled the shell scapes. Randy: Actually, I meant "clearer", not simplified... IMHO, It's easier to read the command without all that escapes.

[bdubbs@…]

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