Re: sed question.

[Carlos Hanson <chanson@ttsd.k12.or.us>]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:28:50 -0400
Ralph Crongeyer <ralph@crongeyer.com> wrote:

> Carlos Hanson wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:31:07 -0400
> >Ralph Crongeyer <ralph@crongeyer.com> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>I need to do a pattern match with sed of "(" and  ")". I need to
> >replace >every ( with "(" and every ) with ")" on every line.
> >>
> >
> >sed 's/[()]/"&"/g'
> >
> >
> Carlos, Thanks!
> By the way, what does the & mean?
> 
> Ralph
> 

It refers to "the portion of the pattern space which matched".  Quoted
from the sed man page.

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