Chris W. Parker wrote
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've read the man page and I've googled for about 30 minutes now and
> have not found an answer.
>
> I've got a file with thousands of lines like this:
>
> Oct 21 04:01:05 10.0.0.1 id=name x=value y=value time="timestamp" ...
>
>
> What I want to do is put a tab in front of every [a-z]{,4}. During my
> googling I found that \t doesn't add a tab when used on the command line
> so you have to create a sed script and use the tab key instead. My sed
> script looks like this:
>
> s/([a-z]{,4})=/ $1=/g
>
> As far as I know I am using the correct regex to solve my problem but
> when I run this script on my file I don't get any changes at all to the
> output file. I've even tried:
>
> s/([a-z])/zaq$1/g
>
> Still nothing.
perl -pi -e 's/([a-z]{1,4})=/\t$1/g' file
-justinb
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