unix -sed

2002-04-28 Thread Murzc
I have a file with phone numbers, one after another. I want to output this file to a sed command, that will check if there is 7 digits, and if there is, then add 3 leading question marks. This is structured that I need to use sed, not PERL or vi. In vi I could say

unix - sed

2002-04-28 Thread Murzc
No flame war needed :. It works. Thanks ciao drieux. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unix -sed

2002-04-28 Thread Michael Kelly
On 4/28/02 8:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... In vi I could say :1,$g/^...$/s/\(.*\)/???\1/g# and it works. In Unix when I output to sed file | sed 's\(.*\)/???\1/g' ## it works. When I dofile | sed 'g/^...$/s/\(.*\)/???\1/g' I

Re: unix -sed

2002-04-28 Thread Michael Turner
What is wrong? Isn't any command from vi able to be done in sed, just take out the leading :1,$ ? That is not my understanding. Regex syntax was different in the many different tools. /Michael Turner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: unix -sed

2002-04-28 Thread drieux
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 05:41 , Michael Turner wrote: What is wrong? Isn't any command from vi able to be done in sed, just take out the leading :1,$ ? That is not my understanding. Regex syntax was different in the many different tools. volks should never confuse the