It's a sed string... Meaning is something like this s for search and replace / as a separator (any char will do, but the one after s becomes the separator) a\ few string to search for ( the backslash is to stop the shell from separating the two words) / separator two string to substitute / separator g global - don't stop on the first occurance in the line
man sed for more info -----Original Message----- From: Rik Tindall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2005 12:51 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT Horse activity summary Not wanting to be a pain, but... Carl Cerecke wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > s/a\ few/two/g I won't be the only one wondering what to Google here.
