[OT] sed expression wildcard bafflement

2003-10-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
a friend just asked me about a shell script she's trying to write. she's got a file that looks like this: blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah c. -- lots of thi.s in there. she's trying something equivalent to: word1=thi.; word2=this; sed

Re: [OT] sed expression wildcard bafflement

2003-10-17 Thread Travis Crump
Nori Heikkinen wrote: a friend just asked me about a shell script she's trying to write. she's got a file that looks like this: blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah c. -- lots of thi.s in there. she's trying something equivalent to: word1=thi.;

Re: [OT] sed expression wildcard bafflement

2003-10-17 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:56:39PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: a friend just asked me about a shell script she's trying to write. she's got a file that looks like this: blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah c. -- lots of thi.s in there. she's trying

Re: [OT] sed expression wildcard bafflement

2003-10-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:53:55PM -0400, Travis Crump insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: a friend just asked me about a shell script she's trying to write. she's got a file that looks like this: blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah thi. blah thi. blah blah blah c. -- lots of thi.s in