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11-20-2006

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Gents,

Missed one space in the 1st one which is not forgiveable even if it is typo..

In regular expression evry chatacter counts.

basically + is one or more characters to match is not present in sed Meta charachers so it can be simulated via " *" or "aa*" which atleast one a and more....

cheers fellas.!!!

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Txs a lot to everyone....

but i am not clear how ls -la | sed 's/ */|/g' works.....

cos we are looking for space+space+*, replacing the same by |, how this cmd replaces | between month and date as there is only one space.

rgds,
jam

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