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.

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