lee wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:07:34PM +0000, Chris Jackson wrote: >> To match anything except |, use: >> >> [^|] > > Thanks! That's nice, but the pattern '\^.*\|[^\|]-[0-9]\|' still > matches all lines ... and I don't see why/how it could to that > ... Hmm. Here's an example line: > > > TV|VOX-1|167(2)|136(ger),|71|12060|1089|SAstra-1H|12187|27500|h|34|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|2120|||1|
Your problem is that regular expressions try to match _as much as possible_ and there are more instances of -1 etc. further back in the lines. '.*' matches any character and thus everything up to the last instance of '-[0-9]'. What you'd want is probably sed '/[^|]-[0-9]/d' channels.dvb which will delete all lines with a '-[0-9]' that is not directly preceded by a | -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
