My main problem turned out to be that I had -E and -e confused.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Martin McCormick wrote:
Warren Block writes:
sed(1) says it should be -E. Looks like it will only work on the whole
script.
Many thanks. I have had -e work many times
But -e does not mean what you think here:
-E Interpret regular expressions as extended (m
Warren Block writes:
> sed(1) says it should be -E. Looks like it will only work on the whole
> script.
Many thanks. I have had -e work many times if you call
sed from either the command line or a shell script as in
sed -f somefile
with somefile being 1 or more lines of sed commands. Whe
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Martin McCormick wrote:
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 an
