From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:02:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <514dfa65203b6192c5332f7425c84e43@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7909752fb09c2bd5553e0acf8b1aaa3@yyc.orthanc.ca>
i don't know why this can't be done with sed. if the
task is to just change the second field without messing
with whitespace, why doesn't this work
; cat x
1 3 4 8
1 2 3 4
; sed 's:^([^ ][ ]*)([^ ]):\1hell:g' < x
1 hell 4 8
1 hell 3 4
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 8:23 Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 8:37 ` matt
2009-09-17 8:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 9:04 ` matt
2009-09-17 9:12 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 10:42 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 12:35 ` yy
2009-09-17 12:55 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 15:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX
2009-09-17 16:02 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-09-17 16:20 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 16:55 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 17:04 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:19 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 17:34 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 20:33 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 20:46 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 21:09 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:22 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 14:16 ` Noah Evans
2009-09-17 14:45 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 17:03 ` Rudolf Sykora
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