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Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:59:03 +0200 (MEST)
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Subject:	sed does not work as expected
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Hi, 

I would like to transform a string with
echo ./a/a/a/w | sed -n '1,$ s/[^\/]*/../gp'
I get 
..../..../..../..../..
but I expected to get 
../../../../..

Can someone tell what's going wrong?

Thanks

  Franz

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