You might check the matches with $ grep -nH --color=auto '<regex>' <scripts>
and then reuse the regex in sed. --hh "Martin G. McCormick" <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote (Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:01:20 -0500): > I am trying to remove the & or ampersand sign from some perl > code I wrote as it is not necessary. I have no trouble finding > all the instances because they consist of an ampersand > immediately followed by a letter so &[a-z] describes the case > perfectly. > The replacement pattern should actually be the same as the > search pattern except that it is missing the & or ampersand. > > The scripts have loads of logical &'s and &&'s in them > so the regular expression seems to be the safest way to globally > replace &everything with just everything. In this case, a global > pattern that returned the search pattern missing it's first > letter would even work. > > Thank you. > > Martin McCormick > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140611221406.31098...@bivalve.fritz.box
