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See Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?

Wildcard
– Wildcard

2016-03-16 01:14:16 +00:00
Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 1:14
Also Why is printf better than echo?

Wildcard
– Wildcard

2016-03-16 01:20:57 +00:00
Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 1:20
And by the way, I link people to those all the time; nothing personal! :D They're just crucial data for script writers. On another note, you don't need the g flag in your sed command when you're using an anchored regex.

Wildcard
– Wildcard

2016-03-16 01:22:33 +00:00
Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 1:22
Ha, I know, I just grabbed the sed invocation from the original post, I didn't give that part much thought!

Jarrod
– Jarrod

2016-03-16 01:24:48 +00:00
Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 1:24

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