Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 09 December 2006 20:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> often, and becomes and ex-human.
>> s and/an
> 
> "an becomes and"? :)
> 
> Hm, I actually don't know how you tell sed to replace the second hit on a 
> line 
> and leave the first
> 
> s/and\(.*\)and/and\1an/
> 
> works for this particular case, but I have a gut feeling there is a more 
> general way of doing it
> 

While an interesting problem in itself, the engineer's solution would be
s/d ex/ ex/
I know, lack of imagination and certainly not a more general way of doing it. 
:-)

Regards,
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Jos van Kan                registered Linux user #152704
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