If you have a sed script that is executable as in the first line starts with #! /usr/bin/sed -f and the following lines are like:
/this repetitive line/d /and another repetitive line to go/d This all works great. You just make the file executable and use it as a filter if you want to remove any instance of those lines in text. How does one embed a command in this filter to make sed understand an extended or modern regular expression like: /part 1[[:space:]]text\/html[[:space:]]/d This is normally the -e flag but I haven't figured out how to put it in the script. I would like to either use it to make that one line show up as an extended regular expression or make sed run the entire script in the -e mode. In this particular case, I have made a 14-line script called nuisancefilter that vaporizes annoying blocks of text from Email messages. I have read the man page and it says that this is possible, but I never quite understood how to apply the commands to an executable sed script file. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"