Re: Whole word substitution with sed

[Anthony E . Greene]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:55:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've tried a slew of different things, none of which have worked.
>Basically, if I could tell sed to only replace whole words, I'd be set. 

In perl, the \b construct denotes a word border. So /\bWORD\b/ should find
WORD by itself (if the same works with sed).

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