On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 04:26:31PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
Here's the version with escaped dashes. If you do the sed version, it's
something to compare to for readability.
[...]
- '------------------------------' |
+ '\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-' |
Ugh. How about:
sed 'yA~`!@#$%^&*()_+={}[]|\;:"<>,/? A------------------------------A'
The 'A' delimiter is because in my test, Solaris sed didn't seem to
understand \/ to include the literal '/'. And all of the other
punctuation is already used in the pattern. ;)
-Peff