[NTLUG:Discuss] dealing with backslashes '\' when 'read'ing files..

[Eric Schnoebelen]

"Richard Geoffrion" writes:
- Error: Makefile:184: *** missing separator.  Stop.
- 
- --my take on the issue based on my research--
- 
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- What do you call those multi-line bash lines \
- that continue on the next line so that\
- there aren't long lines in the editor?

	escaped newlines.

- Issue:  Script parses a Makefile line-by-line searching to remove a string
- but gets tripped up when encountering those baskslashed end of line lines.

	Why not just use sed to make the transformation on the
entire Makefile, rather than trying to have a shell script
do the transformations line by line?

	For your "Script-so-far", it becomes:

	sed -e 's#/usr/include/sys/stdyms.h##g' Makefile >Makefile.new

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