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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Multiple substitutions in one expression using sed Post 302902269 by jim mcnamara on Monday 19th of May 2014 04:54:01 PM
Old 05-19-2014
Yes. Use his awk solution. Most sed versions do not support ERE - what you want. awk does support it. I'm reasonably sure no other sed solution that is a single command and can be generalized with regular expressions. So, No. You cannot do what you ask with sed. Unless you use gnu sed or BSD sed.



ERE == extended regular expressions
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SPLIT(1)						      General Commands Manual							  SPLIT(1)

NAME
split - split a file into pieces SYNOPSIS
split [ option ... ] [ file ] DESCRIPTION
Split reads file (standard input by default) and writes it in pieces of 1000 lines per output file. The names of the output files are xaa, xab, and so on to xzz. The options are -n Split into n-line pieces. -e expression File divisions occur at each line that matches a regular expression; see regexp(6). Multiple -e options may appear. If a subex- pression of expression is contained in parentheses (...), the output file name is the portion of the line which matches the subex- pression. -f stem Use stem instead of x in output file names. -s suffix Append suffix to names identified under -e. -x Exclude the matched input line from the output file. -i Ignore case in option -e; force output file names (excluding the suffix) to lower case. SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/split.c SEE ALSO
sed(1), awk(1) grep(1), regexp(6) SPLIT(1)
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