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Sed help
Name: vibhor_agarwalin Date: February 7, 2005 at 06:00:47 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: sparc
Comment:
Hi,
In sed it sometimes uses sed -e '.../.../.../\1' whats the use of \1 or any other number there.
Name: vgersh99 Date: February 7, 2005 at 06:11:47 Pacific
Reply:
man sed:
The characters \n, where n is a digit, will be replaced by the text matched by the corresponding backreference expression. For each backslash (\) encountered in scanning replacement from beginning to end, the follow- ing character loses its special meaning (if any).
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Response Number 2
Name: vibhor_agarwalin Date: February 8, 2005 at 05:34:53 Pacific
Reply:
Ooops,
I read it, but somehow it didn't click, or i was unable to corelate. Sometimes just a tinkle helps.
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