help with sed

[Dave Mason]

I don't know what all those backslashes are for:

; f='a b c.wav'
; echo `echo $f | sed 's/\\\\\\\\.wav$$//'`.mp3
a b c.wav.mp3
; ls -l `echo $f | sed 's/\\.wav$//'`.mp3
ls: a: No such file or directory
ls: b: No such file or directory
ls: c.mp3: No such file or directory
; ls -l "`echo $f | sed 's/\\.wav$//'`.mp3"
ls: a b c.mp3: No such file or directory

So the answer is to put " around the backquotes.

../Dave

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