on 5-23-2008 11:51 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
Stephen Harris wrote:On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:59:24PM +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote:Stephen Harris wrote:The above version easier to read and "copy paste". Space is space and tabe is \tsed 's/^\([^ ]*[ ]*[^ ]*\)\([ ]*.*\)$/\1.contoso.com\2/' (where there's a space *and* a TAB inside each of the [ ] )sed 's/^\([^ \t]*[ \t]*[^ \t]*\)\([ \t]*.*\)$/\1.contoso.com\2/'I grew up with versions of 'sed' that don't understand this new-fangled method of specifying tabs, and write enough cross-platform code that I can't rely on it (still doesn't work in Solaris 10, for example).perl can do anything sed can do and has almost no platform or version related syntax differences - plus it has \s to represent 'whitespace' and you don't have to bang your head on the wall when you are half done and realize you have to do something spanning multiple lines.
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