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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SED: Can't Repeat Search Character in SED Output Post 302353552 by rhetoric101 on Tuesday 15th of September 2009 03:10:42 PM
Old 09-15-2009
The code you suggested worked very well! It replaces only the underscores betwen the tags, which is want I wanted.

Code:
sed '
s/\(<[^>]*>\)\([^>]*\)\(<[^>]*>\)/\1\n\2\3/g 
:loop
s/\n\([^<_]*\)_/\1_Q\n/g 
/\n[^<_]*_/b loop
s/\n//g' a

What I'd like to know is what are the key differences in your script that enables sed to reuse the underscore, whereas in mine, sed completely hangs if I try to use the "\1_Q" (but works if I just use "\1Q").

Any ideas?
Last edited by rhetoric101; 09-15-2009 at 04:12 PM.. Reason: Forgot closing parenthesis
 

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NAME

       git-ls-remote - List references in a remote repository

SYNOPSIS

       git ls-remote [--heads] [--tags]  [-u <exec> | --upload-pack <exec>]
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EXAMPLES

	   $ git ls-remote --tags ./.
	   d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a	   refs/tags/v0.99
	   f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41	   refs/tags/v0.99.1
	   7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e	   refs/tags/v0.99.3
	   c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441	   refs/tags/v0.99.2
	   0918385dbd9656cab0d1d81ba7453d49bbc16250	   refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub
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	   5fe978a5381f1fbad26a80e682ddd2a401966740	   refs/heads/master
	   c781a84b5204fb294c9ccc79f8b3baceeb32c061	   refs/heads/pu
	   b1d096f2926c4e37c9c0b6a7bf2119bedaa277cb	   refs/heads/rc
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	   d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a	   refs/tags/v0.99
	   f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41	   refs/tags/v0.99.1
	   c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441	   refs/tags/v0.99.2
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