Kenward Vaughan wrote: > If I really had nothing better to do, I'd figure out a sed expression > doing > the same. But I'm a hobbyist, and those slashes and spaces always screw > me up when playing with sed...
;-) # Take a line '\color white', store '\color ', to be retrieved with \1, and # replace 'white' with 'black'. sed 's/^\(\\color *\)white$/\1black/' in.lyx > out.lyx or test with echo '\color white' | sed 's/^\(\\color *\)white$/\1black/' -- Angus