[SLUG] Re: perl substitution of metacharacter

[Angus Lees <gusl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 02:07:42PM +1100, Erich Schulz wrote:
> I would still use sed to do it, in particular from a shell script which may
> process a large  number of files.

one of the things i *really* dislike about gnu sed (the others are too
far gone to be worth considering) is it doesn't support \123 style
escapes

you have to end up doing evilness like:

  sed "s/`echo -ne '\000'`//g"


which just gets annoying after a while..

-- 
 - Gus