Shell Programming and Scripting

Both of these fail. One has two form feeds, the second form leaves all the backslashes.

Code:

bold='\(code\|command\|var\|samp\|option\|strong\)'
sed -e "s;@${bold}{"'\([^}]*\)};\fB\2\fP;g'
sed -e "s;@${bold}{"'\([^}]*\)};\\fB\2\\fP;g'

Obviously, I'm trying to change texi markup into man page markup, but it isn't working.

Hi bkorb,

What should be output? I can't understand your sed command.

Regards,
Birei

Of course not. "sed" is a write-only language. Actually, there was a hidden layer of filtering that I couldn't see. Since everything else was working and that was not a assumed that the "\f" were processed by sed. Nope. There was another layer I didn't know about doing the "\f" -> ^L translation that was avoided by doubling the backslashes. Sorry.
Anyway, to be clear, the desired outcome is from the first expression:

Code:

$ echo '@code{foo}' | sed "$whatever"
\fBfoo\fP

The "@code{}" being a texi-ism and "\fBfoo\fP" being man page text.

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editing isn't working.

Code:

sed "s/that was not a/that was not, I"

on that last post. This should be easier to read.

---------- Post updated at 06:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:26 AM ----------

editing isn't working.

Code:

sed "s/that was not a/that was not, I"

on that last post. This should be easier to read.

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Hmmm. This posting software needs some fixes!!!

---------- Post updated at 06:28 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:28 AM ----------

Hmmm. This posting software needs some fixes!!!

Sorry, but I understand nothing about your post.

Do you want to change @code{foo} into \fBfoo\fP using sed?