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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to use sed to insert character in the beginning of file path? Post 303039312 by duke0001 on Monday 30th of September 2019 02:56:54 PM
Old 09-30-2019
RudiC:

Thanks for explanation. I still do not understand. man sed, only tell us 's/REGEXP/REPLACEMENT/FLAGS'.. In your command, 's#/#/text/#', text is REPLACEMENT. So 1st #, 2nd # and 3rd # stand for what? Wildcard for path name? Are they extended expressio or something else? I checked online and other books. I could not find answer. Can you please explain your command in details? Sorry for this. I want to really know the programming logic of your command.
Thanks in advance for your help.
 

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TAGGREPPER(1)							   User Commands						     TAGGREPPER(1)

NAME
taggrepper - search and match tags of media file for regular expressions SYNOPSIS
taggrepper [--tag-label regexp]... [--display-taglabel]... [FILE/DIRECTORY]... DESCRIPTION
Perform a regular expression search on the tags of specified media files. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. All regular expressions are Perl Compatible Regular expressions supported by the PCRE libraries. Note that all matches are ANDed, meaning that for a successful match, matches against all tags must occur. Support exists for MP3 files, and, if compiled in, for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files as well. -t, --title=REGEXP Match the title tag against REGEXP -a, --artist=REGEXP Match the artist tag against REGEXP -l, --album=REGEXP Match the album, tag against REGEXP -y, --year=REGEXP Match the year tag against REGEXP -g, --genre=REGEXP Match the genre tag against REGEXP -c, --comment=REGEXP Match the comment tag against REGEXP --track=REGEXP Match the track tag against REGEXP -c, --composer=REGEXP Match the composer tag against REGEXP -o, --orig-artist=REGEXP Match the original artist tag against REGEXP -c, --copyright=REGEXP Match the copyright tag against REGEXP -u, --url=REGEXP Match the URL tag against REGEXP -e, --encoded-by=REGEXP Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP --any-tag=REGEXP Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP. Using this option makes every one of the above options to be ignored --display-title display title tag of matching files --display-artist display artist tag of matching files --display-album display album tag of matching files --display-year display year tag of matching files --display-genre display genre tag of matching files --display-comment display comment tag of matching files --display-track display track tag of matching files --display-composer display composer tag of matching files --display-orig-artist display orig-artist tag of matching files --display-copyright display copyright tag of matching files --display-url display url tag of matching files --display-encoded-by display encoded-by tag of matching files -0, --print0, Use null character as delimiter. This option can be used with -0 option of xargs. -r, --recursive Search directories recursively -v, --version Display version and exit -h, --help Display this help message All regular expressions are PCRE regular expressions. Refer to the PCRE documentation for details. Report comments and bugs to a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in COPYING
Copyright (C) Kumar Appaiah License: BSD License (see COPYING file in the distribution tarball for details) This program is free software; you can distribute it under the terms of the BSD License. See the file COPYING in the tarball, or /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD on Debian-based systems. SEE ALSO
pcre(3) taggrepper 0.01 July 2009 TAGGREPPER(1)
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