Hi all,

I have a number of files with a line like this:


I have a statement doing this:


Cat the file, change <> tags around p and /p to [] and tags from h* and /h* to []. However, the statement does this:


The third SED expression is matching everything until the last '>' (just before the [p] tag). How do I make it so it only matches up to the FIRST '>' it comes to? I.E. I want this:



Thanks,
Ben

Solved

I split the statement into two lines in the end when I cleaned up the script, I also played around and got it to do what I wanted it to:


Simple after I re-read my book on pattern matching, I had missed it the first few times I scanned through it.

Now after a few more scripts I've got a legal, up-to-date copy of the book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond, it's a good read

My turn:

It's been a bit of a long day and my brain's clearly missing something obvious. I have a file containing lines of input. I want to use grep to select those that end in a forward slash (ultimately I want to select everything but them, but that's a simple flag). What regexp do I need? I thought I've tried everything obvious:



Edd

Argh my head has just imploded.

We had to write Sed in C last year. Absolute hell!!!!!!!

I'd do something like:

It worked fine in the end as was, when the input was piped straight in from the previous stage. I swear there must be something installed that uses hamsters as line endings on these damn CSC machines!