On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Don Buchholz wrote: > You need parentheses around the three sub-expressions on the LHS so when > you try to use \1, \2, and \3 on the RHS, sed will know what matching text > to use.
Don, Yes, I totally forgot that. > Also, don't forget, you don't have to use the / character as an expression > delimiter ... If my expressions contain / (e.g. path names), I'll > generally switch to | or : to save the headache of escaping all the > forward slashes. E.g. 's: match_expr: replace_expr:' or 's|match > this|print that|g'. I tried a couple of others, but the basic problem overrode them. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
