On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Q2. Is there a way using the supplied sed without major enhancements to > > change "abc x def" to "def x abc": that is, to grab two distinct portions > > and swap them (using $1,$2 or \1,\2 or whatever). > > Sure. 's/^\(.*\) x \(.*\)$/'.
Oops! Make that 's/^\(.*\) x \(.*\)$/\2 x \1/'. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/