Hey Tudor, and others..
The test sed I posted works for doing a search/replace of the text inside
the parens...
> foo('txt')
> foo("txt")
however.. if i wanted to craft a sed that uses the entire >>foo('txt')<< as
the search.. then I run into the need to handle the parens.. and that's the
issue..
this doesn't work
sed -i 's/foo('txt')/foo('/dir1/txt') /' *files.dat
sed -i 's/foo\('txt'\)/foo\('/dir1/txt'\)/' *files.dat
thanks
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Todor Petkov <petkovpto...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:00 PM, bruce <badoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey guys..
> >
> > Sed question.. should be simple, but after stack/net searches, lots or
> > trials.. can't seem to get it..
> >
> > I've got a case
> >
> > foo('txt')
> > foo("txt")
> >
> > I'd like to have
> >
> > foo('/dir1/txt')
> > foo("/dir1/txt")
> >
> > Now. I do a simple sed search/replace if it just focuses on the txt, but
> > crafting a sed that uses the entire input as a search due to the parens
> '()'
> > is a bit painful! Doing the sed using the \( for the ( wasn't quite
> > successful!
> >
> > for just the txt..
> >
> > sed -i 's/'txt'/'dir1/txt'/' *files.dat
> > sed -i 's/"txt"/"dir1/txt"/' *files.dat
> >
> > these work...
> >
> > any thoughts on how to handle the parens would be cool!
> >
> > just irks me that I couldn't see what I missed.
> >
> > thanks!
>
> Try like this:
>
> cat /tmp/1.txt
> foo('/dir1/txt')
>
> sed -e 's#'txt'#'dir1/txt'#' /tmp/1.txt
> foo('/dir1/dir1/txt')
>
> Or:
> sed -e 's/'txt'/'dir1\\/txt'/' /tmp/1.txt
>
> You need to escape the / in the replacement string.
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