On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:15:23AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:53:18PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:29:29PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be > > > able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct > > > incantation... > > > > > > > > > given a file with many strings, include many of the form > > > <a href="some url or other">www</a> > > > > > > I wish each to be transformed to > > > <a href="some url or other">some url or other</a> > > > > > > ie so literal 'www' is replaced with the actual URL for each > > > occurance... > > > > Maybe: > > > > sed -e '\(<a href="\([^"]*\)">\)www\(</a>\)|\1\2\3|g' > > why is it that you don't need the s| at the beginning ?
Because of a typo, I guess. sed -e 's|\(<a href="\([^"]*\)">\)www\(</a>\)|\1\2\3|g' -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
