[ale] sed question

[Geoffrey]

David S. Jackson wrote:
> 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.

I guess I'm confused, which is easily done.  You're trying to change all 
spaces to spaces with a backslash in front of them?  If this the case, 
then this should work:

sed 's/ /\\ /g' filename > newfilename

> 
> 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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