> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:49 PM, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been looking for a command I can use in bash scripts that will do
> > something like this:
> >
> > $COMMAND(n[,m...]) (REGEX-1)(REGEX-2)[...] <($FILE)
> >
> >(MATCH-n)[(MATCH-m)...]
>
Thanks fo
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:49:59PM +, John O'Hagan wrote:
> in other words, treating backreferences as pseudo-variables, but it
> doesn't, AFAIK.
Use the right tool for the job. If you want to treat grouped matches as
variables, use perl because perl explicitly supports this:
$ echo foob
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