[chat] prob with regex

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am having some minor prob with a regex - I think my first .* is 
gobbling up the remainder of the expression.

I have a text file like this:
PAVEY AUASF020388
PAVEY,A AUASF02389
PAVEY,A AUASF02390       <-- just a comma then A
PAVEY,A. AUASF02391      <-- this one has a full stop

and I am matching the string PAVEY followed by anything then ONE white 
space then a string starting with AUASF that I want to remember.

s/PAVEY.* \(AUASF.*\)/AUASF00899 \1/

What I want to get out is this:
AUASF00899 AUASF020388
AUASF00899 AUASF02389
AUASF00899 AUASF02390
AUASF00899 AUASF02391

My prob is that sed script above is not replacing the PAVEY.*
I gather I cant use two '.*'s

Mike
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Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.



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