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I didn't realize sed's regex syntax was so similar to vim's. This works perfectly, thank you.

arthropodSeven
– arthropodSeven

2015-06-11 22:10:31 +00:00
Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 22:10
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@ssonicblue, all regular expressions are derived from ed, specifically in this case ed had two children, sed and vi. And vi, begot nvi and vim, and had other children. And sed begot grep and awk, and had other children. and awk begot perl which begot CGI.pm which begot many flamewars.

hildred
– hildred

2015-06-11 22:45:43 +00:00
Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 22:45

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