Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!groucho!steve From: steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: all sed(1)s have escaped angle-brackets? Message-ID: <10506@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 16:23:57 GMT Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Distribution: na Organization: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Lines: 9 Are there any sed(1)s that do not understand the escaped left and right angle-bracket meta-notation for delimiting, respectively, the beginning and ends of words? For example: sed 's/\/two/' ... Thanks in advance. Steve Emmerson steve@unidata.ucar.edu ...!ncar!unidata!steve