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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting gnu sed regex grouping not working? Post 302278641 by Allasso on Tuesday 20th of January 2009 07:56:23 PM
Old 01-20-2009
thank you for your reply.

Your example works fine for what it does, but the whole point is to be able to use the square brackets so I can use the NOT form -- [^...] -- in order to keep the match from being greedy.

Are you saying that you cannot have a group inside of [...] ?
Last edited by Allasso; 01-20-2009 at 09:11 PM.. Reason: clarity
 

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ZIPGREP(1L)															       ZIPGREP(1L)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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ARGUMENTS

       pattern
	      The pattern to be located within a ZIP archive.  Any string or regular expression accepted by egrep(1) may be used.  file[.zip] Path
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	      An optional list of archive members to be excluded from processing.  Since wildcard characters  match  directory	separators  (`/'),
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SEE ALSO

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URL

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AUTHORS

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