- To: Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [chat] prob with regex
- From: invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:22:19 +1000
- Cc: slug-chat@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Reply-by: Mon Jun 30 13:21:27 EST 2003
- User-agent: Mutt/1.5.4i
Michael Lake:
> 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
$ cat mike
PAVEY AUASF020388
PAVEY,A AUASF02389
PAVEY,A AUASF02390
PAVEY,A. AUASF02391
$ sed "s/PAVEY.* \(AUASF.*\)/AUASF00899 \1/" < mike
AUASF00899 AUASF020388
AUASF00899 AUASF02389
AUASF00899 AUASF02390
AUASF00899 AUASF02391
Are you using GNU sed?
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