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Re: do shell script- sed conundrum
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Re: do shell script- sed conundrum


  • Subject: Re: do shell script- sed conundrum
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:07:40 -0700
  • Thread-topic: do shell script- sed conundrum

I don't understand any of that. Just give us the starting text and desired
ending text.

-- Gnarlie


Entity Eric Geoffroy spoke thus:

> This is a tiny part of a sed script that I'm calling from 'do shell
> script' This is the misbehaving part.
> SOURCE
> Title: King KongTitle: Godzilla
> Title: Mothra
> DESIRED RESULT
> Title: King Kong
> Title: Godzilla
> Title: Mothra
> I worked out the regex to match '\BTitle: '
> to negate the word boundary. In sed though, the boundary is \<
> but I can't figure out how to negate that.
> In my make-believe world, this would work-
> sed 's/\BTitle:/Title:\r/' title.txt
> I also tried ^\<(Title)
> In the real world, the \B is invalid for sed, and the shell in OSX is
> not handling the \r.
> thx
> - Eric
>  _______________________________________________


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