how do I negate a sed match - Shell Programming and Scripting

ghostdog74 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-29-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by muxman

That deletes the match. What I'm after is to negate it. Instead of replacing the match, replace EVERYTHING ELSE and leave the match alone.

Alternative in Python:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
all = open("file1.txt").read()
allwords = all.split()
for i in range(0,len(allwords)):
	if not "http://www.google.com" in allwords[i]:
 		allwords[i] = "xXx"
print ' '.join(allwords)

Output:

Code:

'xXx xXx http://www.google.com xXx xXx xXx'