Re: Help a sed noob

From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 12:26 UTC
Message-ID: <46B4705D.2010208@fs.ei.tum.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070804121811.GA1605@lapse.madduck.net>

martin f krafft wrote:

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> also sprach Jeff King <peff@peff.net> [2007.08.04.1350 +0200]:
>> No, it prints everything _except_ "URL: *" from the first matching line.
> 
> I am convinced we could submit this to the Obfuscated Code Contest.
> :)

This is basic sed scripting.

> The behaviour is absolutely unclear from the manpage and defies my
> logic. Can you elaborate a bit, even though this is off-topic?

-ne means "don't print, execute the following code".

/.../ should be clear, { starts a "function list" s// is "match last regexp, so s/// is "match last regexp and replace with empty string. flag "p" to function "s" means "print if matched" q is "quit".

that's really straight forward and all documented in my sed(1).

cheers
  simon

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