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Old 08-10-2012
Using SED to copy/paste with slashes and tabs.
I have:

Code:
2012/01_January/Kite[TAB HERE]/foldername/otherfoldername/placeholder[TAB HERE]Blue

I want to end up with:

Code:
/foldername/otherfoldername/2012/01_January/Kite/Blue

Basically take everything before the first tab and put it in the place of the consistently named word placeholder and add a slash in place of the last tab. I am using sed on Solaris.

Thanks!


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Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data.
Last edited by zaxxon; 08-10-2012 at 05:44 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 08-10-2012
Try:
Code:
sed 's/\(.*\)\t\(.*\)placeholder\t\(.*\)/\2\1\/\3/' file

# 3  
Old 08-10-2012
This works on Solaris, the @@@@ is an actual TAB:
Code:
> cat t
2012/01_January/Kite@@@@/foldername/otherfoldername/placeholder Blue


Code:
> sed -e 's#^\([0-9]\{4\}/[0-9]\{2\}_.\{1,9\}/.\{1,\}\)@@@@\(/.\{1,\}/.\{1,\}/\).\{1,\}@@@@\(.\{1,\}\)#\2\1/\3#' t
/foldername/otherfoldername/2012/01_January/Kite/Blue

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