From: Christian Brabandt on
On 2010-03-21, Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas(a)yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Christian's sed command is the standard way to write it. However,
> his echo command is non standard (but would have been OK in
> comp.gnu.shell)

True. I always forget about printf since I am so used to echo.
Old habbits die hard.

regards,
Christian