Help with sed script?
Kevin D. Clark
kclark at elbrysnetworks.com
Tue Sep 5 16:46:02 EDT 2006
Michael ODonnell writes:
> I'm trying to use sed to rewrite lines in a config file that
> have a target string 'xyz' in them surrounded by whitespace
> and which are NOT commented out with a hash sign and which
> may or may not have leading whitespace. This expression:
How about:
sed -r -e '/^[[:space:]]*\<xyz\>/{s/^.*$/REWRITTEN/}'
This solution is nice too:
perl -pe 's/^\s*\bxyz\b.*/REWRITTEN/'
Regards,
--kevin
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