most sed implementations lack octal
(
the luck exception i know of is sed15, for dos and unix. download it
from simtel:
http://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/SearchEngines/dos.cgi
)
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my favourite DOS/UNIX sed15 (with C source)
(easily compilable for UNIX. has friendly extenstions/relaxations like hex)
ftp://uiarchive.uiuc.edu/pub/systems/pc/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/sed15.zip
ftp://uiarchive.uiuc.edu/pub/systems/pc/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/sed15x...
Directory: /pub/systems/pc/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/
Filename Type Length Date Description
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sed15.zip B 62082 910930 Unix-compatible streaming editor v1.5 TC src
sed15x.zip B 20300 910930 Unix-compatible streaming editor v1.5 EXE/docs
sed15.zip has C source, compilable for UNIX.
Also, check simtel for u-sedit. has nice docs.
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O'Reilly sed books http://www.ora.com
1- sed and awk 2nd edition by Dale Dougherty + Arnold Robbins
(mostly for awk)
2- mastering regular expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
(mostly for perl, emacs, awk. but touches on sed)
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: : I have a line of text that looks like this:
: : .E 6734 970621 DH0700/HW/DIH1/ / / / / / /
: : Notice that there are 6 occurences of "/ /".
: : I wish to sed this line (and others like it) to:
: : .E 6734 970621 DH0700/HW/DIH1/M/M/M/M/M/M/
: : I have tried several different combinations of sed such as:
: : (1) sed 's/\/ \//\/M\//g'
: : (2) sed 's/\057 \057/\057M\057/g'
: : Yes, I used the -e option on both of the above scenarios also, but the
: : best output I received was:
: : .E 6734 970621 DH0700/HW/DIH1/M/ /M/ /M/ /
: : Now, I thought that the g suffix was a "global" qualifier for sed,
: : meaning sed changed EVERY occurence of string1 to string2. In this case
: : it seemed to perform the change on every OTHER occurence. Could someone
: : please explain my error, and provide the correct command syntax?
: try
: sed 's,/ /,/M/,g'|sed 's,/ /,/M/,g'
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