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Old 03-25-2008, 05:14 PM   #1
BrianK
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need sed help - how to replace all instances of X except those on lines with Y?


say I have a file:

Code:
foo bar
gah foo bar
foo foo
bar gah
foo gah
... and I want to replace all instances of "foo" with "oof" except those on lines that also have "gah". So, I would want the output to look like:

Code:
oof bar
gah foo bar
oof oof
bar gah
foo gah
Is this even possible?
 
Old 03-25-2008, 06:12 PM   #2
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One sed Example

If I correctly understood what you wrote, this seems to work:

#!/bin/sed

/\(.*\)\(gah\)\(.*$\)/!s/foo/oof/g

I wanted to find all lines without gah, and then do a simple substitution on those lines. You could do this with something more complicated, but then you'd be getting into parts of matches, which gets more complicat
 
Old 03-25-2008, 06:23 PM   #3
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If I correctly understood what you wrote, this seems to work:

#!/bin/sed

/\(.*\)\(gah\)\(.*$\)/!s/foo/oof/g

I wanted to find all lines without gah, and then do a simple substitution on those lines. You could do this with something more complicated, but then you'd be getting into parts of matches, which gets more complicat
perfect! Thanks! That would have taken a really long time to figure out.
 
Old 03-25-2008, 06:39 PM   #4
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Except it doesn’t have to be so complicated:
Code:
sed -e '/gah/!s/foo/oof/g'
 
Old 03-25-2008, 06:49 PM   #5
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Except it doesn’t have to be so complicated:
Code:
sed -e '/gah/!s/foo/oof/g'
well that's even prettier. Thanks.
 
  


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