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From: radzy@calma.UUCP (Tim Radzykewycz)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: YA{sed}{question}
Message-ID: <68@calma.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 13:26:14 EST
Article-I.D.: calma.68
Posted: Thu Nov 21 13:26:14 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 07:21:11 EST
References: <294@geowhiz.UUCP>
Reply-To: radzy@calma.UUCP (Tim Radzykewycz)
Organization: GE/Calma Co., R&D Systems Engineering, Milpitas, CA
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In article <294@geowhiz.UUCP> larry@geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
>[input]
>{garbage}#{complete garbage}#{more garbage}
>....

>[desired output]
>{garbage}#{complete garbage}{more garbage}
>....

[has been using:]
>sed -e 's/#[^#]*#/&YUCK/g' -e 's/#YUCK//g'

Better is:
sed -e 's/#\([^#]*\)#/#\1/g'

There is a reasonably good description of regular expressions (as used
by sed) in the man page for ed.
-- 
Tim (radzy) Radzykewycz, The Incredible Radical Cabbage
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