Sed programming question

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Thu Dec 11 18:15:22 UTC 2008




Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Dan Thurman wrote:
>> I tested your suggestion above with and without -r option
>> but could not make it work as an "AND operator":
>>
>> # echo "foo har" | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo/}}'
>> goo har
>
> $ rpm -q sed
> sed-4.1.5-11.fc10.x86_64
>
> $ echo "foo har" | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo/}}'
> foo har
>

$ echo "foo har"  | sed -e "s/foo/goo/g" -e "s/har/bar/g"
goo bar

Is this what you're trying to do?

Kevin




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