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Subject: A sed question
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From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Date: 14 Apr 2000 16:13:15 -0400
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I'm setting up a procmail rule to filter message through sed to remove
mailing list ids in subject line. I miss "|" in sed's syntaxis. For
example I have a rule:

,----[ .procmailrc ]
| :0 f
| * ^mailing-list:.*\/(php3-help|php4beta)
| |sed '/^Subject:/ s/\[PHP[34]\(BETA\)*\]  *//g'
| 
| :0 A:
| lists/programming/$MATCH
`----

But the regexp in the sed's command above is not *exactly* the
language that I meant. I wanted to match [PHP3] or [PHP4BETA]. Or, in
other words \[PHP(3|4BETA)\]. But the above would allow a match on
[PHP3BETA], as well as [PHP4] and [PHP4BETABETABETA]. I know this is
silly, but I feel defeated because I can't express exactly what I
need.

Is there a way around this missing "|" metacharacter?

Can I specify *two* commands per line?

Thanks!
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