6.4 Examples of Searching
When used with
6.4.1 Examples of Searching and Replacing
The following examples show the metacharacters
available to sed or ex.
Note that ex commands begin with a colon.
A space is marked by a
Finally, some sed examples for transposing words. A simple transposition of two words might look like this:
s/die or do/do or die/ Transpose words. The real trick is to use hold buffers to transpose variable patterns. For example:
s/\([Dd]ie\) or \([Dd]o\)/\2 or \1/ Transpose, using hold buffers. |
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