Reports

I did the "hardwork" going through all special characters in ERE,PERL (I hope)

in /usr/local/bin/ssed

#!/bin/sh

file="$1"

if [ -n "$file" ]; then
  sed "s#[@/\^.$|()[*+?{}\#,&=:~]\|-\|\]#\\\&#g" "$file"
else
  sed "s#[@/\^.$|()[*+?{}\#,&=:~]\|-\|\]#\\\&#g"
fi

Example Usage:

$ grep '^[^#]' mirrorlist | ssed | xargs -d'\n' -I{} sed -i '/{}/ s/#//' mirrorlist.pacnew

In this case I needed to go through all urls in mirrorlist.pacnew and uncomment those which are in mirrorlist uncommented.

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