Quick sed question

scuffell · 02-11-2005, 04:52 PM

Hi,

I'm using sed to replace every occurence of - t the beginning of a line with an asterisk:

sed "s/^-/\*/g"

Despite the fact that I have escaped the asterisk, it still substitutes the contents of the current directory, and doesn't just display *

I have had a look through the man pages, doesn't mention anything about this problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks

sigsegv · 02-11-2005, 05:02 PM

that's bash giving you a headache. Use single quotes instead of double quotes.