topic Re: regular expression in Operating System - HP-UX

regular expression

Erol KAHRAMAN — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:45:14 GMT

hi guys,
may be this is very simple question but i can't found the answer.
I need to match
** (two star)
with regular expression.
i tried
sed s/\*\*/something/ file
sed s/*{2}/something/ file
sed s/\*+/something/ file
...

any suggestion

Re: regular expression

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:51:37 GMT

Hi Erol:

# sed -e 's/\*\*/something/' file

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: regular expression

OldSchool — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:52:12 GMT

sed 's/\*\*/new/' file

Re: regular expression

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:53:50 GMT

Quotes matter:

sed 's/\*\*/something/g' file > outfile
will replace every occurence of "**" with "something".

Re: regular expression

Erol KAHRAMAN — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:58:43 GMT

thanks guys,
that is the answer.