Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> Can you use a regexp like:
>> s/\(known_part\)\(.*\)\(change_part\)/\1\2replace_part/
>
> Unless I misunderstand that, I'd say no.
>
> The actual file might look this:
>
> /begin file
>
> foo bar{
> biz service-one
> baz service-two
> }
>
> --many more of that--
>
> # comment
>
> fiz bir{
> aaa service-one
> bbb service-two
> }
>
> /end file
>
> So only after the "# comment", I want to then start replacing.
> I am just trying to replace a very ugly long set of commands piped into
> each other that I am using now.
I think there is a way to do it in sed using the holding space, but it's so much
easier in perl that I never bothered to learn the hard parts. What's the
problem with using perl anyway?
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