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Use <tt>\(</tt> and <tt>\)</tt> for grouping. Parentheses must be escaped to be interpreted as grouping separator.





Revision as of 16:46, 11 July 2016

Internal

Special Characters (need to be escaped in regular expressions)

     /
     "
     $ # unescaped signifies end of line 
     !

Non-Special Characters (do not need to be escaped in regular expressions)

     <
     >
     (
     )
     !
     -

Grouping

Use \( and \) for grouping. Parentheses must be escaped to be interpreted as grouping separator.


Examples

Match everything except space:

     [^ ]*
     .*

seems to work too.

Words (digits, alpha, _):

sed -e 's/[0-9a-zA-Z_]*/THIS_WAS_A_WORD/g'

Blank spaces (spaces, tabs, newlines):

\s