Would someone please explain why I get that error message when I run this
script which is in a file and sourced  by sed -f scriptfile   file ?
When I escape the "-" I get:
sed: file sedd line 13: Unknown command: ``L''
when I escape THAT It tells me that "\" is an unknown command.



I have escaped everything in sight "\"  :-)
But what is below is what I *thought* should work.

Am using GNU sed and bash




/^### Priveleged/a\
\
\
:0\
* ^Subject.*er554kk\
* ! ^X-Loop: joe@isp.net\
{\
:0 c\
${DEFAULT}\
\
:0 ha\
| (formail -r -I"X-Loop" \\
-A"X-Loop: joe@isp.net" ; \\
echo "     computer-generated response:" ;\\
echo ; \\
echo "      Mail Received -- Thank You" ; \\
echo ; \\
echo ; \\
echo ; \\
echo ; \\
) \\
| $SENDMAIL -t\
\
}\


I may still have some hair left when I check back in here :-)

Thank you very much

Alan


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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:42:32 GMT, Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Would someone please explain why I get that error message when I run this
> script which is in a file and sourced  by sed -f scriptfile   file ?
> When I escape the "-" I get:
> sed: file sedd line 13: Unknown command: ``L''
> when I escape THAT It tells me that "\" is an unknown command.
> 
> 
> 
> I have escaped everything in sight "\"  :-)
> But what is below is what I *thought* should work.
> 
> Am using GNU sed and bash
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /^### Priveleged/a\
> \
> \
>:0\
> * ^Subject.*er554kk\
> * ! ^X-Loop: joe@isp.net\
> {\
>:0 c\
> ${DEFAULT}\
> \
>:0 ha\
>| (formail -r -I"X-Loop" \\
> -A"X-Loop: joe@isp.net" ; \\
> echo "     computer-generated response:" ;\\
> echo ; \\
> echo "      Mail Received -- Thank You" ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> ) \\
>| $SENDMAIL -t\
> \
> }\
> 
> 
> I may still have some hair left when I check back in here :-)
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> Alan
> 
> 

The way to do this is with ed:

#!/bin/bash

ed  file_to_edit <<EOF
/search_string/a

put all that stuff and escape the backslashes and $ and #

..
w
q
EOF



That's thanks to a fellow named Barry Margolin from an old post
in the archives.

Thanks, Barry


Alan


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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:42:32 GMT, Alan Connor 
  <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Would someone please explain why I get that error message when I run this
> script which is in a file and sourced  by sed -f scriptfile   file ?
> When I escape the "-" I get:
> sed: file sedd line 13: Unknown command: ``L''
> when I escape THAT It tells me that "\" is an unknown command.
> 
> 
> 
> I have escaped everything in sight "\"  :-)
> But what is below is what I *thought* should work.
> 
> Am using GNU sed and bash
> 
The first several lines of the script end with \, then all of a sudden
you switch to \\.  The single \ escapes the newline, so that the lines
ending with \ are all seen as one command.  When you start using \\,
the newlines are not escaped.  I think you need to change \\ to \\\.
 
> 
> 
> /^### Priveleged/a\
> \
> \
>:0\
> * ^Subject.*er554kk\
> * ! ^X-Loop: joe@isp.net\
> {\
>:0 c\
> ${DEFAULT}\
> \
>:0 ha\
>| (formail -r -I"X-Loop" \\
> -A"X-Loop: joe@isp.net" ; \\
> echo "     computer-generated response:" ;\\
> echo ; \\
> echo "      Mail Received -- Thank You" ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> ) \\
>| $SENDMAIL -t\
> \
> }\
> 
> 
> I may still have some hair left when I check back in here :-)
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> Alan
> 
> 


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Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when
I grow up.
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:55:03 -0400, Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:42:32 GMT, Alan Connor 
>> 
> The first several lines of the script end with \, then all of a sudden
> you switch to \\.  The single \ escapes the newline, so that the lines
> ending with \ are all seen as one command.  When you start using \\,
> the newlines are not escaped.  I think you need to change \\ to \\\.
>  

Worth a try. Thanks.


>Bill

>--
>Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when
>I grow up.
>                -- Peter Drucker
 
Right on! ^



Alan

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Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote in message news:<IOYQa.102508$Io.8820954@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> Would someone please explain why I get that error message when I run this
> script which is in a file and sourced  by sed -f scriptfile   file ?
> When I escape the "-" I get:
> sed: file sedd line 13: Unknown command: ``L''
> when I escape THAT It tells me that "\" is an unknown command.
> 
> 
> 
> I have escaped everything in sight "\"  :-)
> But what is below is what I *thought* should work.
> 
> Am using GNU sed and bash
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /^### Priveleged/a\
> \
> \
> :0\
> * ^Subject.*er554kk\
> * ! ^X-Loop: joe@isp.net\
> {\
> :0 c\
> ${DEFAULT}\
> \
> :0 ha\
> | (formail -r -I"X-Loop" \\
> -A"X-Loop: joe@isp.net" ; \\
> echo "     computer-generated response:" ;\\
> echo ; \\
> echo "      Mail Received -- Thank You" ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> echo ; \\
> ) \\
> | $SENDMAIL -t\
>  \
> }\
>


u r off by just 1 \ in \\

need 1 \ for sed's append command and 2 \ for slipping in a literal \
in the appended text.

On 16 Jul 2003 12:22:35 -0700, rakesh sharma <sharma__r@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote in message news:<IOYQa.102508$Io.8820954@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> 
> 
> u r off by just 1 \ in \\
> 
> need 1 \ for sed's append command and 2 \ for slipping in a literal \
> in the appended text.


Thanks a lot, Rakesh. 


Alan

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