hey todor..
I'll give it a try.. I was thinking it's the parens.. overlooked the fact
that i introduced '/' in the replace.. which might have caused issue.. but
the '/' was successful in the test with just the text inside the ()..
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Todor Petkov <petkovpto...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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