Have you tried backslash escaping the backslash? double escaping? I don't know how many are required, but I would try first \S, then \\S, then \\\\S, etc Regards, Andrew Ardill On 30 October 2013 12:34, Eugene Sajine <euguess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I need some advice about creating the git command alias: > > I have this as the command: > > git log --pretty=format:"%h %ad %ae %s" --date=short | sed 's/@\S*//g' > > > The purpose is to cut off the email domain and keep only username. > > I'm trying to create this as the alias: > > > lg = !sh -c 'git log --pretty=format:"%h %ad %ae %s" --date=short | > sed 's/@\S*//g'' - > > but it complains about the \S and i'm failing to come up with the > escape sequence to make it work right. > > I know i can work around that by creating shell alias, but it is not > what i would like to have. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html