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 :1,$g/^.......$/s/\(.*\)/???\1/g # and it works. In Unix when I output to sed file | sed 's\(.*\)/???\1/g' ## it works. When I do file | sed 'g/^.......$/s/\(.*\)/???\1/g' I get a message sed: command garbled: 'g/^.......$/s/\(.*\)/???\1/g' . What is wrong? Isn't any command from vi able to be done in sed, just take out the leading :1,$ ? Any help appreciated.
