Re: sed How do I replace whole word.

[Matthew Gregan]

At 2005-01-19T09:02:28+1300, C. Falconer wrote:
> Why the  \b  ?

'\b' matches word boundaries, and Ross already said why... "without
getting hits on words like cattle".

$ echo "apple cat dog cattle" | sed s/cat/pussy/g
apple pussy dog pussytle

Cheers,
-mjg
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