From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 18:28:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19E216A41A for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A2C13C45B for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8PISvAi057585; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l8PISuqL057584; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Nikos Vassiliadis Message-ID: <20070925182855.GH50519@thought.org> References: <20070925013723.GA50027@thought.org> <200709250931.05367.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <20070925165844.GD50519@thought.org> <200709252038.50704.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709252038.50704.nvass@teledomenet.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:28:58 -0000 On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:38:50PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 19:58, Gary Kline wrote: > > But trying to parse this from man sed is more than > > difficule. And I have yet to find "ba" in the man page. That is > > why I asked for some insights rather that to be told to "go read > > the man page"; to me, that's dismissing the issue rather than > > addressing it. > > Hm, my suggestion was wrong... sed is a bit cryptic to learn from the > manual page. The manual can be used as a reference, if you alread know > sed. > > So, ba is: > branch to the a label > for example: > my_label: > ... > bmy_label Thank you! This will help me de-code that sed one-liner that was evidently written by a sedexpert. The linux pages help further, but I've found some soild tutorials. > > My points are: > If you want to learn sed, you have to invest some time. > If you want to ask for an one-liner that does what you want, > that's fine too. > > sed isn't only s/foo/bar/. There is a dc(1) clone in sed, > which is at least an amazing accomplishment for sed. You > might want (or not) to learn more things about it. > > > Right. I always do a perl -pi.bak [...] mostly out of habit. > > With sed, redirection saved the new output, leaving the original > > in ``.'' FWIW, I was using the sed on my Ubuntu server. It is > > different from the BSD sed that I've used now/then since 1978. > > I think this version of sed is different too, since it's part > of BSD since 4.4BSD. It may be compatible with the older BSD > one. The in-place replacement is a non-standard extension which > both BSD and GNU sed share. > The last time I used sed seriously was in the early 80's; then there was only redirection :-) much obliged for your tips. I've got to write a shell/sed script to edit the rest of this stuff. Time to invest!! gary > Cheers > > Nikos > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org