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Old 05-31-2011
sed to insert a slash and keep text
I have:
/path/to/my/fixdir/MD1234567.tar

I want to have:
/path/to/my/fixdir/MD/1234567.tar

fixdir never changes but MD does and how many numerical digits does. I want something like:
/usr/bin/sed 's/fixdir\/../fixdir\/..\//'

This ends up:
/path/to/my/fixdir/../1234567.tar

But instead of it putting in two periods I want it to put the characters that were there back. I am on Solaris and want to use sed.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 05-31-2011
Code:
echo '/path/to/my/fixdir/MD1234567.tar' | sed 's#\(fixdir/\)\(..\)#\1\2/#'

# 3  
Old 06-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by crowman
fixdir never changes but MD does and how many numerical digits does. I want something like:
/usr/bin/sed 's/fixdir\/../fixdir\/..\//'

This ends up:
/path/to/my/fixdir/../1234567.tar

But instead of it putting in two periods I want it to put the characters that were there back. I am on Solaris and want to use sed.

Thanks
Try the below sed..
Code:
echo '/path/to/my/fixdir/MD1234567.tar'|sed 's/fixdir\/\([A-Z][A-Z]*\)\([0-9][0-9]*.*$\)/fixdir\/\1\/\2/'

# 4  
Old 06-01-2011
Try that one :

Code:
$ echo '/path/to/my/fixdir/MD1234567.tar' | sed 's:.*/..:&/:'
/path/to/my/fixdir/MD/1234567.tar

the & reference the pattern that have previously been matched and using colon as separator avoid escaping the slash
Last edited by ctsgnb; 06-01-2011 at 04:40 AM..
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