Sed and Bash; unterminated 's' command

David A. Sinck plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:49:56 -0700


\_ SMTP quoth Liberty Young on 3/19/2003 08:01 as having spake thusly:
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\_  sed -ne "s|^foobar[[:blank:]]|foo bar|p;p" processed_file

I've heard it sed that perl might be a solution:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/^foobar /foo bar/' processed_file

YMMV

David