On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > $ echo "const int TIXML_MAJOR_VERSION = 2;" | sed 's/const int > TIXML_MAJOR_VERSION = \([0-9]+\).*/\1/' > const int TIXML_MAJOR_VERSION = 2; By replacing (sed 's/../../') with (sed -n 's/../../p') you can see that the regex doesn't match. The cause is that sed recognizes an "\+" operator, not "+" operator. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
