Zoltan Frombach wrote: > You are right. My mistake. This indeed works: > > sed -E -e "s/^[0-9]+/199/" conf-split > conf-split.new > > Thanks for clearing this up.
For what it's worth, there is another way to write this regexp without using the -E flag. Since x+ == xx*, you can write it: "s/^[0-9][0-9]*/199/". The reason for not using -E is that it's not portable, since it's not specified by the standard. GNU sed uses -r for extended REs. Cheers, Maxime _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"