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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to specify beginning-of-line/end-of-line characters inside a regex range Post 302659201 by gary_w on Wednesday 20th of June 2012 01:31:58 PM
Old 06-20-2012
I believe some versions of sed allow a logical or. Mine does not. Try this:

Code:
sed 's/^test\||test/found_it/g' filename

If portability is a concern, you might want to stick with something like this:
Code:
sed 's/|test/FOUND/g;s/^test/FOUND/g' filename

 

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Test::Regression(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Test::Regression(3pm)

NAME

       Test::Regression - Test library that can be run in two modes; one to generate outputs and a second to compare against them

VERSION

       Version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

	 use Test::Regression;
	 ok_regression(sub {return "hello world"}, "t/out/hello_world.txt");

DESCRIPTION

       Using the various Test:: modules you can compare the output of a function against what you expect.  However if the output is complex and
       changes from version to version, maintenance of the expected output could be costly. This module allows one to use the test code to
       generate the expected output, so that if the differences with model output are expected, one can easily refresh the model output.

EXPORT

       ok_regression

FUNCTIONS

   ok_regression
       This function requires two arguments: a CODE ref and a file path.  The CODE ref is expected to return a SCALAR string which can be compared
       against previous runs.  If the TEST_REGRESSION_GEN is set to a true value, then the CODE ref is run and the output written to the file.
       Otherwise the output of the file is compared against the contents of the file.  There is a third optional argument which is the test name.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

   TEST_REGRESSION_GEN
       If the TEST_REGRESSION_GEN environment file is unset or false in a perl sense, then the named output files must exist and be readable and
       the test will run normally comparing the outputs of the CODE refs against the contents of those files. If the environment variable is true
       in a perl sense, then model output files will be overwritten with the output of the CODE ref.

AUTHOR

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BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-regression at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Regression>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of
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   testing of STDERR
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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