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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script Shell Extract substring Post 302948581 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 30th of June 2015 02:14:27 PM
Old 06-30-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
Don,
If you do not mind to explain why you chose to use a character class to represent the single period instead of escape it.

Code:
sed 's/[.]fr[.].*//' file.txt

It's easier for me to use a single construct in a BRE or ERE that never changes depending on context.

All of the following commands remove the 1st two adjacent periods from each input line processed:
Code:
sed 's/\.\.//'
awk '{sub("\\.\\.","")}1'
awk -v RE='\\\\.\\\\.' '{sub(RE,"")}1'
sed 's/[.][.]//'
awk '{sub("[.][.]","")}1'
awk -v RE='[.][.]' '{sub(RE,"")}1'

Note the varying number of backslashes required when using escapes (one, two , or four for each escaped period), depending on context. But when using the character class expression, the same string works in all three cases.
 

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