Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:45:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin's vanilla sed : capabilities and limitations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net wrote: > > > Q2. Is there a way using the supplied sed without major enhancements to > > change "abc x def" to "def x abc": that is, to grab two distinct portions > > and swap them (using $1,$2 or \1,\2 or whatever). > > Sure. 's/^$.*$ x $.*$$/'. Oops! Make that 's/^$.*$ x $.*$$/\2 x \1/'. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/