Blog posts tagged with 'regex':
Sed: simple pattern address usage
Date: 06 Dec 2010Tags: [ pattern ] [ regex ] [ sed ]
Most people I know use sed for simple and fast translation of some keyword in files. For instance, changing ports and tags inside configuration files during deployment to production servers. This results in sometimes clumsy scripts to make sure that sed changes a keword on line 4, but not on line 40. Most people I know have no idea that the way you can actually limit the range in which sed has to operate. Let’s explore…