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tonton 08-31-2004 09:26 AM
insert a symbol with sed
 
hello,

I've a variable which return the 5th field in a ligne.

var=`echo $i | cut -d";" -f5`

it returns:
1234
4512
...

I want to insert a ":" in the middle of each number like :
12:34
45:12

i tried whith sed, but i 've an error.

Thnks for your help

ToniT 08-31-2004 09:33 AM
Code:
toni@mario:~$ echo -e '1234\n4567' | sed 's/^\(..\)\(..\)$/\1:\2/'
12:34
45:67
toni@mario:~$

tonton 08-31-2004 10:04 AM
hello,

thanks for your help

i've a messag error ( sed : command garbled 's/^\(..\)\(..\)$/\1:\2/' )

what it means?

thanks

ToniT 08-31-2004 10:09 AM
Did you try that exact command I used?

Are you having what versions of of bash and sed?
Code:
toni@mario:~$ echo $SHELL, $BASH_VERSION
/bin/bash, 3.00.0(1)-release
toni@mario:~$ LC_MESSAGES=C sed --version
GNU sed version 4.1.2
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
to the extent permitted by law.
toni@mario:~$

tonton 08-31-2004 11:04 AM
hello

it's a sun solaris 5.8

thanks

jlliagre 08-31-2004 11:33 AM
ToniT's script works with Solaris 8:

Code:
$ uname -s -r
SunOS 5.8
 $ echo '1234\n4567' | sed 's/^\(..\)\(..\)$/\1:\2/' 
12:34
45:67
 $


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