On 2012-02-26 23:30:55, lina wrote: > $ echo "GNU linux is cool" | sed -e 's/\(<[^ ]*>\)\([ ]*\)\(<[^ > ]*>\)/\3\2\1/g' > GNU linux is cool
What is it that you are trying to do? The regex is looking for <optional non-space>optional space<optional non-space> and as there are no <> in the input nothing matches. The -n argument to sed quite useful to see this in which case you use the p command to print what matches. /Allan -- Allan Wind Life Integrity, LLC <http://lifeintegrity.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120226161641.gg10...@lifeintegrity.com