Am Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:02 +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org>: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:28:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > man sed answers your second question :) > > s/regexp/replacement/ > Attempt to match regexp against the pattern space. If successful, > replace that portion matched with replacement. The replacement > may contain the special character & to refer to that portion of the > pattern space which matched, and the special escapes \1 through \9 to > refer to the corresponding matching sub-expressions in the regexp. > > No mention of using a different separator, and I couldn't find any > other reference either. I did look before asking.
Man page is very short. Check the info pages for full documentation.
(Almost all tools from GNU userland have a short man page and a long
info page. At least that is what they say right at the bottom.)
Section 3.5 (The `s' Command) states in the first paragraph:
The syntax of the `s' (as in substitute) command is
`s/REGEXP/REPLACEMENT/FLAGS'. The `/' characters may be uniformly
replaced by any other single character within any given `s' command.
The `/' character (or whatever other character is used in its stead)
can appear in the REGEXP or REPLACEMENT only if it is preceded by a `\'
character.
Cheers,
Renat
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