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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Regular Expression In Sed Post 302521884 by Perderabo on Thursday 12th of May 2011 03:30:29 PM
Old 05-12-2011
sed's s command only hits the first match unless you add a g flag:

Code:
$ echo  abc 123 def 456  |  sed 's|\([a-z]*\) \([0-9]*\)|\1|'
abc def 456
$ echo  abc 123 def 456  |  sed 's|\([a-z]*\) \([0-9]*\)|\1|g'
abcdef
$

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