Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file

[Andrew DeFaria]

  On 11/25/2010 09:35 AM, Alexandre Bezroutchko wrote:
>> you can use a different separator in the sed command.
>> You can use the following line
>>
>>   echo 123 | sed "s%2%${HOME}%g"
>
> Right, this will work in most cases. But will fail if $HOME happens to 
> contains % sign.
> The version I have suggested in the previous post is more robust.
How often does that happen?
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