Question

I’m trying to use sed in a shell script in Applescript to strip this string – ?print=1 – from this html link in the variable the_html, which is <a href="http://myurl.com.html?print=1">my link</a>

but this throws an error:

set new_html to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of the_html & " | sed s=?print=1= =g'"

Do I need to escape the “=”?

Edit:

Works now. Applescript didn’t like an = escaped with a \, but escaping the whole string works:

sed 's/?print=1//g'

Answer 1

Try this:

echo '<a href="http://myurl.com.html?print=1">my link</a>' | sed 's/?print=1/ /g'

Comments:

• Put the HTML in quotes or escape it property
• When using sed, you generally use slashes: ‘s/a/b/’