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Infinite Recursion · Aug 16th, 2007, 3:47 PM

My shell responds with:
sed: command garbled: s/\(#\)\(/dev/sde1.*\)/\2/

You need to escape the / character... like this:

sed 's/\(#\)\(\/dev\/sde1.*\)/\2/' /etc/fstab
sed 's/\(#\)\(\/dev\/sdf1.*\)/\2/' /etc/fstab

The only difference is the sde vs sdf... regular expressions would allow you to process them with just one line. But if its a one time execution, save yourself the trouble.

You're welcome PoM...

There is another one for Awk floating around somewhere.

Aug 16th, 2007, 3:47 PM	#7
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	My shell responds with: sed: command garbled: s/\(#\)\(/dev/sde1.\)/\2/ You need to escape the / character... like this: sed 's/\(#\)\(\/dev\/sde1.\)/\2/' /etc/fstab sed 's/\(#\)\(\/dev\/sdf1.*\)/\2/' /etc/fstab The only difference is the sde vs sdf... regular expressions would allow you to process them with just one line. But if its a one time execution, save yourself the trouble. You're welcome PoM... There is another one for Awk floating around somewhere. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."