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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 11:53:37PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
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> I can also use $USER instead of `whoami`.
> Is the following correct?
> 
> cat ~keesan/procmailrc.sample | sed -e "/keesan/$USER/g" >> ~/.procmailrc

The "-e" isn't necessary unless there is more than one expression:

sed -e 's/A/a/' -e 's/b/B/'  # for example

You can also do that like so:

sed 's/A/a/;s/b/B/'

(There are many versions of sed, so watch out for exceptions to the above.)

Usually, to be on the safe side, when a variable is bounded by
something other than spaces or newlines, you should enclose it in
double quotes or like this: ${USER}

> There is only one occurrence of keesan.  Do I need the g?

No. Your instincts are right on there. That means "global" and is necessary
only if there might be more than one instance on a _line_.

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>> Because of things like that, I think, Slackware and Linux kernel projects
>> are living for so long and still are actively maintained/developed -
>> they both have "benevolent dictators" that prevent such quarrels.

> So does BL, fortunately.

I couldn't agree more.

Lee

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