sed help please
 

Hi,

I've come up with this sed command:
sed s//media// filename

One question, how can I include the / charactar in the search patton?
This works fine except, I need to add a / in the search patton, any
ideas how to do this so sed doesn't complain?

Thanks very much,

Daniel.


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sed help please
 

Hi Daniel,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:35:46PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've come up with this sed command:
> sed s//media// filename
>
> One question, how can I include the / charactar in the search patton?
> This works fine except, I need to add a / in the search patton, any
> ideas how to do this so sed doesn't complain?
Use a backslash bevor the slash/: "/" works fine


Axel


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sed help please
 

Axel Freyn (2009-01-27 12:11 +0100) wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:35:46PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> sed s//media// filename
>>
>> One question, how can I include the / charactar in the search patton?
>> This works fine except, I need to add a / in the search patton, any
>> ideas how to do this so sed doesn't complain?

> Use a backslash bevor the slash/: "/" works fine

Yes, or use some other character to separate the parameters of "s"
command. This example uses comma:

sed -e 's,pattern,replacement,'

Then "/" does not need backslash-escaping but "," does.


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Hi Axel,

> Use a backslash bevor the slash/: "/" works fine

Thanks, very much, that worked!

Cheers,

Daniel.


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