Writing up short showcase for sed, but /-\ - A doesn't work [SOLVED]

Question

As the title says, I'm working on a zenity script to store a fair chunk of sample sed commands to remind myself what I can do with it. Everything seems to work fine except for the l33t to english garbler.
When that is run, it gives me this:
sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unterminated `s' command
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unknown option to `s'
sed: -e expression #1, char 10: unterminated `s' command
sed: -e expression #1, char 5: unterminated `s' command
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unterminated `s' command
http://pastebin.org/193208 <-- has whole script and highlighted line causing trouble <-- not updated, but I have it solved on the local copy. I'll make sure to update this when I get done cleaning up the code
[^edit: escaped characters pointed out]
But if I execute this (same trouble command, but not inside the script) [fixed typo now]:
sed s/'\/-\\'/A/g <yourfile that has /-\ for a in it>
or
echo "/-\\" | sed s/'\/-\\'/A/g
^It turns the /-\ back into an A...so...I honestly don't know what the shell is doing to interpret the same command differently.
Last edited by ShadowKyogre (2010-05-02 18:34:30)

Answer 1

Daenyth wrote:Your quoting is wrong.
Procyon wrote:
The quoting is indeed a mess! But the error is from lack of escaping, and no amount of quoting will fix that.
EDIT
Although in the script you have: sed s/'\/-\\'/A/g, which is different from what you posted above.
There is an error in:
sed s/'[_-'/G/g
sed s/'[]'/O/g
sed s/'\/'/ V/g
sed s/'\|/'/W/g
So unescaped []/. And probably some more from special regex characters.
*looks back at the script and my post* Whoooooooooah...that is a huge mistake o_o. *hurries to escape the regex characters in the l33t*
I'll go fix the typo in my post and I went around and escaped the ones you showed. Now only this pops up.
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unterminated `s' command