My mistake, sorry for the noise, JFTR: * only double quotes can fully escape a string (it is safer to enclose the whole value in double quotes) * backslashes have to be doubled because they are interpreted by git So [filter "kicad_sch"] clean = "sed -E 's/#(PWR|FLG)[0-9]+/#\\1?/'" smudge = cat JN -- 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