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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing a character between two numbers Post 302884989 by mikey11415 on Wednesday 22nd of January 2014 10:37:47 PM
Old 01-22-2014
Hm, that doesn't seem to be working. I tried using tr with [:digit:] but with no use. Any other ideas? Sorry I am not proficient with sed

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Code:
sed 's/\([0-9]\)-\([-0-9]\)/\1\_\2/g'

seems to work. thanks for getting me started. from: http://www.windowslinuxosx.com/q/ans...rs-224042.html
 

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NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
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