On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:21:44PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have a line in a lot > of HTML files that I'd like to remove. The line is: > > <hr style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 32, 159); margin: > 0rem;"> > > I'm testing the sed command to remove it on just one file. When it works, > I'll run it against *.html. My command is: > > sed -i -s 's/\s*\<hr\ \ style.*\>//g' history.html > > Unfortunately, the replacement doesn't remove the line but rather leaves me > with: > > <;">
This looks as if the <> in the regexp were interpreted as left and right word boundaries (but that would only be the case if you'd given the -E (or -r) option). Try explicitly adding the --posix option, perhaps... And oh, option "-i" implies "-s" according to the docs. But this shouldn't matter (and much less explain the behaviour you're seeing). Cheers -- t
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