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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Regexp replace in vim/sed Post 302488290 by durden_tyler on Sunday 16th of January 2011 01:55:38 PM
Old 01-16-2011
If Perl is an option, then :

Code:
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$
$ cat f2
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy</a>
$
$
$ perl -lne '($x,$y,$z)=/^(.*">)xxx.(.*).yyy(.*)$/; $y=~s/_/ /g; $y=ucfirst $y; print "$x$y$z"' f2
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">Aaa bbb ccc</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">Aaa bbb ccc</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">Aaa bbb ccc</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">Aaa bbb ccc</a>
<a href="xxx.aaa_bbb_ccc.yyy">Aaa bbb ccc</a>
$
$

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