On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:26 PM, bruce <badoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
cat /tmp/1.txt ; echo; sed -e
"s#foo('txt')#foo('/dir1/txt')#;s#foo(\"txt\")#foo('/dir1/txt')#"
/tmp/1.txt
foo('txt')
foo("txt")
foo('/dir1/txt')
foo('/dir1/txt')
This?
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