[ale] sed question

[David S. Jackson]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:32:45PM -0500 Geoffrey The Esoteric <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> What is it that you're trying to substitute for?  Looks to me like it's 
> a space for a space????

It's an escaped space, or it's supposed to be.

You know, I think it's my choice of the "for" statement that is
messing things up; "for" takes the spaces and makes a list of all
items separated by a space.  I'm trying to ask "for" to behave
differently by seeing a space but not using it to create the
list.  I was forgetting that "for" was interpreting the spaces,
not the shell.  Oops.

So, the "cat sample.txt|while read line" structure suggested
earlier would be the one to use here, because while won't act on
the spaces.  

Guess I just get addicted to "for" sometimes.  :-)

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