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03-17-2008

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You are getting outside the realm of what sed can reasonably do. At this point I would probably switch to Perl.

Code:

perl -pe 's/\bFoot\b/Play/g;s/\bfoot\b/play/g; warn if m/[Ff]oot/' files ...

This should handle full stop and other punctuation, which the sed script won't (without additional tinkering).