[GLLUG] Bash scripting problem

[Martin A. Brooks]

On 2017-05-16 15:28, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 03:21:44PM +0100, John Levin via GLLUG wrote:
>> What would be the best way to pass along to sed two strings like
>> "An ad to","An act to" ?
> 
> Quote them.
> 
> $ echo "An ad to" | sed -e "s/\bad\b/act/g"
> An act to
> 
> http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/quoting


Or use perl, which is the swiss army knife for this kind of thing.