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From: ksb@nostromo.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin Braunsdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Make and '#'
Summary: use tr(1) and a @
Keywords: #, @, make, tr
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Date: 8 May 91 19:41:51 GMT
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I've needed # in shell commands in make before.  I had to use tr(1) to
get them...  here is an example from an old Makefile....

OLDCODE= ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -E $$file |\
	 sed -n -e `echo '/^@/p' |tr "@" "\043"` |\
	 sed -e 's/^.[ 0-9]*"\(.*\)" *$$/\1/' -e '/\/usr\/include/d'


Note that 
	$ echo '/^@/p' | tr "@" "\043"
outputs
	/^#/p

which is the string I need to pass sed -e...  (yes, I know one sed would do).


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