07-06-2011
basically it transform whatever1:whatever2 into whatever2:whatever1
It switches 2 columns that are separated with colon but in details ...
sed 's/RE/PATTERN/'|replace the first found regular expression 'RE' with the pattern 'PATTERN'
^ | the line start with |
\( | beginning of the description of a regular expression that can be back referenced later as \1 |
[ | start defininf a list of element |
^ | negation of the list |
: | element |
] | end of list of possible element |
* | previous definition repeated 0 or more times |
\) | End of the regular expression to which we can later refer as \1 |
: | colon (taken litterally) |
\( | beginning of the description of a regular expression that can be back referenced later as \2 |
[^:]* | any character that is NOT a colon repeated 0 or more times |
\) | End of the regular expression to which we can later refer as \2 |
/ | separator to start the description of PATTERN |
\2 | back reference to the second \( \) previously defined |
: | colon (taken litteraly) |
\1 | back reference to the first \( \) previously defined |
/ | separator to start the description of PATTERN |
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GID(1) User Commands GID(1)
NAME
gid - Query ID database and report results.
SYNOPSIS
gid [OPTION]... PATTERN...
DESCRIPTION
Query ID database and report results. By default, output consists of multiple lines, each line containing the matched identifier followed
by the list of file names in which it occurs.
-f, --file=FILE
file name of ID database
-i, --ignore-case
match PATTERN case insensitively
-l, --literal
match PATTERN as a literal string
-r, --regexp
match PATTERN as a regular expression
-w, --word
match PATTERN as a delimited word
-s, --substring
match PATTERN as a substring
Note: If PATTERN contains extended regular expression metacharacters, it is interpreted as a regular expression substring. Other-
wise, PATTERN is interpreted as a literal word.
-k, --key=STYLE
STYLE is one of `token', `pattern' or `none'
-R, --result=STYLE
STYLE is one of `filenames', `grep', `edit' or `none'
-S, --separator=STYLE
STYLE is one of `braces', `space' or `newline' and only applies to file names when `--result=filenames'
The above STYLE options control how query results are presented. Defaults are --key=token --result=filenames --separator=space
-F, --frequency=FREQ
find tokens that occur FREQ times, where FREQ is a range expressed as `N..M'. If N is omitted, it defaults to 1, if M is omitted it
defaults to MAX_USHRT
-a, --ambiguous=LEN
find tokens whose names are ambiguous for LEN chars
-x, --hex
only find numbers expressed as hexadecimal
-d, --decimal
only find numbers expressed as decimal
-o, --octal
only find numbers expressed as octal
By default, searches match numbers of any radix.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to bug-idutils@gnu.org
SEE ALSO
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command
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gid - 4.5 August 2010 GID(1)