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Old 05-21-2011
sed pattern match problem

Hi all, hoping this is a simple one, tried looking but just can't see the solution

As an example I've got a list of words that all start Ben.....

Bendicks
Benefiber
Ben
Benylin

I need to only change the line Ben with Ben 10, ignoring the other lines.

I tried the following

Quote:
sed -i "s/^Ben/Ben 10/g"
This works however changes all the rest also, how do you get sed to only focus on a select string pattern?

Many thanks
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Old 05-21-2011
Maybe try adding a $:

Code:
sed -i "s/^Ben$/Ben 10/g"

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