hi,
I'm currently trying to set up a `ksh' script as a drop in replacement for
`awk' in processing some text. I've stumbled over the following.
consider this string:
a="water: h~2~^o^ and ammonia: NH~3~"
where I want to replace the `~' enclosed text parts by something else,
maintaining the enclosed text. I've tried
echo "${a/~(-g:~(*)~)/#\1#}"
to replace the first hit in the line by `h#2#'
but this does not work (neither does the same with backquoted `~').
what am I missing? something to do with tilde expansion?
thanks
joerg
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