[ale] sed

[ozone at webgroup.org (David Tomaschik)]

Marvin, International Martian of Mystery wrote:
> timothy at meanor.net wrote:
>> Here's another perl solution:
>>
>> perl -p -i.bak -e "s/abc/xyz/g" file
>>
>> where "file" is the file you want to change.
>>   
> What would be the syntax if "file" had spaces in it?  Would you escape 
> the spaces, or would you double-quote the variable?
> 
> 
> For sed and perl, preferably.  :-)

At least for sed, the only place the file string would be
interpreted/globbed is by the shell.  Thus, file\ with\ spaces and "file
with spaces" would be equivalent.

David