Aha!
So Carl's (programmer) joke translates to approx:
"please substitute my previous use of 'few' with 'two' (f-words)"
C. Falconer wrote:
It's a sed string... Meaning is something like this
s for search and replace
/ as a separator (any char will do, but the one after s becomes the
separator) a\ few string to search for ( the backslash is to stop the shell from
separating the two words)
/ separator
two string to substitute
/ separator
g global - don't stop on the first occurance in the line
man sed for more info
Thanks list, Rex & Craig. I've learnt something.
Now, to test usage. Is this a result or an error-message?:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rik $ sed GNUlinux.txt~ sed: -e expression #1, char 2: Extra characters after command
Looks like my input is wrong.. Ok, I'm supposed to be processing my file in some more functional way.
[Feel free to drop thread at will :-]
Cheers,
- Rik
