On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:53:18PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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' why is it that you don't need the s| at the beginning ? > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir@jabber.org | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > tzafrir@cohens.org.il | | best > ICQ# 16849754 | | friend > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "I think war is a dangerous place." - George W. Bush 05/07/2003 Washington, DC
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