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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to identify delimiter to find and replace a string with sed? Post 303040500 by duke0001 on Wednesday 30th of October 2019 11:08:45 AM
Old 10-30-2019
RudiC:

Thanks for your questions and advice. My Unix is Solaris 10. It seems sed do not support EREs. Please see following output. As for date regex is concerned, this format was created by some other people and has been in production for years. I could not change it at this moment. So the best expression will still be like '01-MON-20XX' or '31-MON-20XX'. These dates are government fiscal quarter begin date and end date. It is in SQL statement. I want to use shell script to automate the change to new quarter begin date and end date for data process and report generation. You are absolutely right. $NEWDATA is variable which is queried from database and put with sed to replace old date. Here is output:

Code:
/home/oracle> sed -r "s/[0-3][0-9]-($(locale abmon | tr 'a-z;' 'A-Z|'))-[12][09][0-9]{2}/"'01-OCT-2019'"/" test4.txt
sed: illegal option -- r

/home/oracle> sed -E "s/[0-3][0-9]-($(locale abmon | tr 'a-z;' 'A-Z|'))-[12][09][0-9]{2}/"'01-OCT-2019'"/" test4.txt
sed: illegal option -- E

/home/oracle> sed -e "s/[0-3][0-9]-($(locale abmon | tr 'a-z;' 'A-Z|'))-[12][09][0-9]{2}/"'01-OCT-2019'"/" test4.txt
       ep.begin_date, ep.end_date, ep.facility_code,
AND    ep.begin_date <= '01-JUL-2019'
       ep.begin_date, ep.end_date, ep.facility_code,
AND    ep.begin_date <= '01-JUL-2019'
       ep.begin_date, ep.end_date, ep.facility_code,
AND    ep.begin_date <= '01-JUL-2019'

Now question is: based on Solaris 10, how can sed handle the extended regular expressions? Please give me some idea. Thanks.
 

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