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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh pattern matching Post 302166042 by drl on Sunday 10th of February 2008 03:44:05 PM
Old 02-10-2008
Hi.

That's quite an array of very different results. If I were aiming for portability (which I usually am), I'd probably use the old standby sed:
Code:
#!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh -
#!/usr/xpg4/bin/sh -
#!/bin/ksh -
#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s2       Demonstrate pattern matching in dtksh and sed.

echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version =o $(_eat $0 $1)

var='Regular expressions rules!'
echo
echo " Replace e with _:"
echo ${var//e/_}

echo
echo " Replace everything except e with _:"
echo re ${var//!(e)/_}
echo fe ${var//[!e]/_}

echo
echo " Replace everything except e with _ using sed:"
echo "$var" | sed -e 's|[^e]|_|g'

exit 0

Producing:
Code:
$ ./s2
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
SunOS 5.10
dtksh M-12/28/93d

 Replace e with _:
R_gular _xpr_ssions rul_s!

 Replace everything except e with _:
re _
fe _e______e___e__________e__

 Replace everything except e with _ using sed:
_e______e___e__________e__

The re and fe above are regular expressions and filename expressions, intended to show the different syntax, and how one works and the other does not.

I got something out of this, namely dtksh, thanks to Perderabo. It's a bit tricky to find. I think it also carries a very large load of graphical baggage -- sort of like Tk (tcl/Tk). I dug through my very old pile of books, finding this:
Quote:
Title: Desktop KornShell Graphical Programming
Author: Pendergrast, Jr., J Stephen
Edition: 1st
Date: 1995
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd)
ISBN: 0-201-63375-2
Pages: 880
Categories: ksh, Korn Shell, scripting, unix, shell, programming, graphics
Comments: 4 stars ( Amazon, 4 reviews )
and at almost 1,000 pages, you can tell there is a lot. The size on Solaris X86 is 620144, even larger than bash.

You pays your money and you takes your chances (quoting either the cartoon character Popeye or one of my previous bosses Smilie ) ... cheers, drl
 

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