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Old 03-29-2012
Can you perfect my sed ?
I want to print only the lines that meet the criteria : "worde:" and "wordo;"
I got this far:
sed -n '/\([a-zA-Z]*\)\1e:\1o;/p;'

But it doesn't quite work.
Can someone please perfect it and tell me exactly how its a fixed version/what was wrong with mine?


Thanks heaps,
Last edited by maximus73; 03-29-2012 at 01:51 PM..
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Old 03-29-2012
You need to use | to choose between two patterns. Put them inside brackets.


Code:
sed -n '/\([a-zA-Z]*\)\1\(e:\|o;\)/p'

If you have GNU sed, you can eliminate the hornets' nest of backslashes with -r.

Code:
sed -r -n '/([a-zA-Z]*)\1(e:|o;)/p'

 
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