From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam / text search query
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:08:32 +0100
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> not forgetting that the "s" command supports \(...\) etc.

...while remembering that, as with all regexps in plan 9,
the old ed-like \( and \) become egrep-like ( and ),
so the old:

	s/\([a-z]*\) \([a-z]*\)/\2 \1/

becomes:

	s/([a-z]*) ([a-z]*)/\2 \1/