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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting comment a line of the patterns is a the beginning of the line Post 302692155 by elixir_sinari on Monday 27th of August 2012 07:59:22 AM
Old 08-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by sathyaonnuix
Ah how i read it incorrectly.. Hope this works..

sed 's/\(exclude\)/#\1/g;s/\(exclude=\)/#\1/g'

@Elixir: Am on my mobile.. couldn't try..
That will not work either.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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