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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple sed one-liner for fixing unencoded ampersands Post 302217246 by BMDan on Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 09:46:00 AM
Old 07-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by tobbe
sed -e 's/\&[^amp;|^apos;|^quot;|^lt;|^gt;]/\&/gi' input.xml

<xml>
<source> &quot; One &quot; </source>
<name>test &amp; test</name>
<last>test2&amp;test2</last>
<address>test3 &apos; test3</address>
<area> test5 &lt; test5</area>
<post> test6 &gt; </post>
<test> test7&amp;/test>
</xml>
Your match catches the part after the "&" (after all, that's what all that "not" business is!). Wrap the expression in parentheses (remember to escape them!), and then include a backreference in the substitution.
 

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CATDIC(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CATDIC(1)

NAME
catdic - Download a dictionary SYNOPSIS
catdic [{-cs|-cannaserver} canna-server] [-i|-u user-name] remote-dic [-l local-file] DESCRIPTION
catdic downloads a dictionary file to the current directory. The file downloaded is a dictionary file the dictionary name of which is remote-dic. It is in the user dictionary directory of the machine on which cannaserver(1M) is in operation. (Hereafter, this machine is called the remote host.) OPTIONS
-cs canna-server (or -cannaserver canna-server) Specifies the name of the server machine that contains a dictionary to be downloaded. -i Downloads the system dictionary. -u user-name Specifies the user name. Another user's dictionary can be referenced by this user name. -l local-file local-file is the dictionary file name. If it is omitted, the standard output will be assumed. EXAMPLES
% catdic test Outputs the contents of dictionary file ``test'' on the remote host, to the standard output. % catdic test -l test2.t Downloads dictionary file ``test'' on the remote host to current directory file ``test2.t''. SEE ALSO
cannaserver(1M), lsdic(1), mkdic(1) CATDIC(1)
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