Re: sed

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

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'

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