Re: "Sed" Question

2009-10-17 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:05:09 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:24:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Pierre Gaston wrote: >> > Please consider asking in a sed mailing list like: >> > http://sed.sourceforge.net/#mailing >> > or maybe in the usenet group comp.unix.shell >> >> I

Re: "Sed" Question

2009-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I would think help-gnu-ut...@gnu.org would be the better place to ask > > for help about GNU utilities. :-) > > We don't know that he's using GNU sed. True, we don't know for sure. But I think it likely that it is GNU sed given the behavior. Plus ei

Re: "Sed" Question

2009-10-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:24:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Pierre Gaston wrote: > > Please consider asking in a sed mailing list like: > > http://sed.sourceforge.net/#mailing > > or maybe in the usenet group comp.unix.shell > > I would think help-gnu-ut...@gnu.org would be the better place to a

Re: "Sed" Question

2009-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Gaston wrote: > Please consider asking in a sed mailing list like: > http://sed.sourceforge.net/#mailing > or maybe in the usenet group comp.unix.shell I would think help-gnu-ut...@gnu.org would be the better place to ask for help about GNU utilities. :-) Bob

Re: "Sed" Question

2009-10-14 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, henter2009 wrote: > > I have the following question about sed and methacaracters: > > This mailing list is mainly about the development, the features and the bugs of bash. sed is not really related to the shell, except that you often use it in bash and in scripts.

"Sed" Question

2009-10-14 Thread henter2009
I have the following question about sed and methacaracters: In the eg number 1, I escaped the +, to get any matches with 1 plus (1 or more characters) In the eg number 2, I escaped the *, to get any matches with 0 or more characters, but it scape the * and takes it at literal. Why it doesn't tak