Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:41:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there a delete/backspace command on Freebsd ? Message-ID: <20021218134137.GA74300@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <007101c2a688$ccc06880$dc96eed5@ymmaslak> References: <007101c2a688$ccc06880$dc96eed5@ymmaslak>
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:29:59PM +0200, Malik B=FClent wrote:
> I have a file.
> How can I backspace 5 character that start with expressions(the expressi=
on
> starts /aaa) in a file ?
> for example my file;
> " /aaa/yy/
> /aaa/..
> "
If you mean "how can I delete each instance of 5 characters starting
with /aaa from a file", then something like this should do it:
perl -pi.bak -e 's:/aaa.::g;' filename
which deletes the /aaa and the following (fifth) character. If you
mean to delete the 5 characters immediately *following* /aaa then:
perl -pi.bak -e 's:(?<=3D/aaa).{5}::g' filename
Cheers,
Matthew
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