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Old 10-04-2007
NycUnxer NycUnxer is offline
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Hi, can anyone explain step by step what this line of sed code is trying to do. Thanks.

Sed -e "s/big \(.*\) dog/small \1 cat/" filename
Last edited by NycUnxer; 10-04-2007 at 01:04 PM..