* escaping # in Emacs Shell
@ 2003-11-05 20:29 Chris Volinsky
2003-11-05 21:16 ` Dan Anderson
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From: Chris Volinsky @ 2003-11-05 20:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
I have a file which is delimited with '#' (I know, dont ask). I
cannot figure out how to escape this in Emacs shell-mode, as in for an
awk script.
The following do not work:
awk -F# '{print $1}' filename
awk -F\# '{print $1}' filename
awk -F"#" '{print $1}' filename
awk -F'#' '{print $1}' filename
its not an awk problem, I get the same thing with join -t\#, etc.
Thanks,
Chris
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* Re: escaping # in Emacs Shell
2003-11-05 20:29 escaping # in Emacs Shell Chris Volinsky
@ 2003-11-05 21:16 ` Dan Anderson
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From: Dan Anderson @ 2003-11-05 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs
If you want to be dangerous I bet you can find a command to create a
char from a hex symbol. But if you're not using ASCII or plan to switch
between machines using Unicode that may be a bad idea.
-Dan
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