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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Need help to use regex to do search and replace. Don't know how to and can't figure out how :( Post 303026923 by RudiC on Wednesday 5th of December 2018 07:39:28 AM
Old 12-05-2018
Try
Code:
sed -r '\#(/db/LTS/abc)p(_.*dbf)$#s//\1t\2/' file


And, yes, the text colour selector (available in the "quick reply editor") seems to be missing in the "advanced editor". But with the bold and underline you did quite well.
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