regular expression

[Erol KAHRAMAN]

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

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Erol:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[OldSchool]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Quotes matter:

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

[Erol KAHRAMAN]

thanks guys,
that is the answer.