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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed for query Post 302423265 by alister on Thursday 20th of May 2010 01:26:22 PM
Old 05-20-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pseudocoder
Maybe
Code:
's/[^,]'${id}',//g'

which should mean either begin of line or a comma
(not sure if this will work...)
Actually, that means not-comma followed by the number. It wouldn't help, as that would match a digit and still allow partial matches.

Regards,
Alister
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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