Makes ya want to eat a steaming plate of haggis :-D

[link|http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/|http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/]

And I believe you're right:
s/regular expression/replacement/flags
Substitute the replacement string for instances of the regular expression in the pattern space. Any character other than backslash or newline can be used instead of a slash to delimit the RE and the replacement. Within the RE and the replacement, the RE delimiter itself can be used as a literal character if it is preceded by a backslash. An ampersand (&) appearing in the replacement will be replaced by the string matching the RE. The special meaning of "&" in this context can be suppressed by preceding it by backslash. The characters \\n, where n is a digit, will be replaced by the text matched by the corresponding backreference expression. For each backslash (\\) encountered in scanning replacement from beginning to end, the following character loses its special meaning (if any). It is unspecified what special meaning is given to any character other than &, \\ or digits. A line can be split by substituting a newline character into it. The application must escape the newline character in the replacement by preceding it by backslash. A substitution is considered to have been performed even if the replacement string is identical to the string that it replaces. The value of flags must be zero or more of:

n
Substitute for the nth occurrence only of the regular expression found within the pattern space.
g
Globally substitute for all non-overlapping instances of the regular expression rather than just the first one. If both g and n are specified, the results are unspecified.
p
Write the pattern space to standard output if a replacement was made.
w wfile
Write. Append the pattern space to wfile if a replacement was made.

Post #248,274 by imqwerky 3/17/06 2:29:57 PM Reply	Makes ya want to eat a steaming plate of haggis :-D "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Post #248,287 by Andrew Grygus 3/17/06 3:05:50 PM Reply	It does? Unfortunately (or fortunately?) a truly proper haggis can't be made in the U.S. unless you dismantle your own sheep, because selling sheep lungs is not legal. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #248,288 by Another Scott 3/17/06 3:08:09 PM Reply	Why is that?
Post #248,293 by ChrisR 3/17/06 3:19:05 PM Reply	Illegal because the sound the sheep makes when lungs... ...removed is like the sound of bagpipes.
Post #248,298 by drewk 3/17/06 3:35:28 PM Reply	Rarely do I actually LOL ... but that one got me === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,302 by Another Scott 3/17/06 4:18:19 PM Reply	ObAOL.
Post #248,307 by jb4 3/17/06 4:43:45 PM Reply	Haggis is Scottish. Corned beef & cabbage is Irish jb4 "Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'." &mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
Post #248,312 by Silverlock 3/17/06 5:05:01 PM Reply	Corned beef and cabbage is as Irish . . . as Pizza is Italian. ----------------------------------------- Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. Do it now.
Post #248,314 by CRConrad 3/17/06 5:10:12 PM Reply	Yes, haggis is Scottish...Are you saying bagpipes are not?
Post #248,318 by jb4 3/17/06 6:04:39 PM Reply	They were "imported" Best argument for the customs service I can think of... jb4 "Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'." &mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
Post #248,324 by CRConrad 3/17/06 6:44:51 PM Reply	What I meant was, WTF does your reply to Amy mean? That she should have associated them with Ireland in stead of Scotland, or what? Do you? I don't. And I don't think very many people do. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link\|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105\|Mr. Hat]
Post #248,332 by ben_tilly 3/17/06 7:01:17 PM Reply	He probably had Ireland on his brain because of... it being St. Patrick's day today. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #248,341 by boxley 3/17/06 8:16:03 PM Reply	yea, people at work said I wasnt wearing green so I smiled at them thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #248,343 by imqwerky 3/17/06 8:20:57 PM Reply	Revealing your green teeth? Or because you were wearing green undies? Dancing a jig, Amy "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Post #248,345 by boxley 3/17/06 8:22:46 PM Reply	use the same dentist as Muqtada al Sadr Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #248,382 by CRConrad 3/18/06 1:19:04 AM Reply	Duh! Sorry JayBee, sorry Ben. :-(How stupid of me!)-: Worst thing is, I knew that; I noticed in passing that Google seems to have smaller clovers than last year, and I chuckled at Andrew's "hyphenated-Americans" who spread their old tradiotions sometimes as far as back to the old homeland. But (for some stupid fucking unfathomable reason) I didn't grok that then, when someone wanders around blowing his bagpipes in the workplace (wasn't it?) in America on that day, they're infinitely more likely to be supposed to be Irish pipes than Scottish. Which perfectly explains why JayBee thought Amy should have been drooling for cabbage stew in stead of haggis. Damn, I hate it when I'm being stupid like that. :-( :-( :-( Sorry. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link\|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105\|Mr. Hat]
Post #248,391 by Another Scott 3/18/06 8:36:41 AM Reply	Must have been something about 3/17. I had a similar incident, so don't feel bad. Have a look at [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=248380\|this] thread in the Mac forum. :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #248,393 by boxley 3/18/06 9:17:11 AM Reply	too much blood in the alchohol stream Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #248,583 by jb4 3/20/06 1:48:17 PM Reply	I concur! jb4 "Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'." &mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
Post #248,327 by ben_tilly 3/17/06 6:47:31 PM Reply	No. AFAIK, they're originally Irish Of course so are the Scots. Which is why they hate the Irish so much. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #248,331 by CRConrad 3/17/06 6:56:51 PM Reply	SIGH. If you absolutely have to brag with your trivia... ...knowledge, then please try to at least make it something that we don't all know already. The point is, by now the bagpipes, like the Scots themselves, are considerably more Scottish than Irish in the eyes of... Well, apparently everybody except you. If you want to contribute to the discussion, then try to figure out where the fuck JayBee dredged up the Paddies' grub from in the first place. Can he really not have noticed that they -- Scots, pipes, and all -- left Hibernia for Caledonia back around when they were still both called that? [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link\|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105\|Mr. Hat]
Post #248,400 by imqwerky 3/18/06 11:04:32 AM Reply	Okay, potatoes and soda bread then. But haggis is funnier :-P Deflatedly, Amy "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Post #248,402 by Another Scott 3/18/06 11:06:11 AM Reply	Don't let the pitnickers get you down. :-)
Post #248,405 by imqwerky 3/18/06 11:13:19 AM Reply	All in good fun. Hugs, Amy "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Post #248,411 by drewk 3/18/06 3:37:11 PM Reply	All in? Good. Fun! Yet more Fun With Punctuation™. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,759 by bionerd 3/21/06 5:37:26 PM Reply	You need to get yourself another hobby :-) Follow your MOUSE
Post #248,807 by pwhysall 3/22/06 2:50:35 AM Reply	s/another/a/ Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #248,838 by bionerd 3/22/06 9:51:11 AM Reply	You know I dont have a clue what you people are saying When you talk in code. I just smile and nod. Follow your MOUSE
Post #248,840 by Another Scott 3/22/06 10:03:38 AM Reply	s/x/y/ (I think) Means: substitute "x" with "y" Thus, "You need to get yourself another hobby :-)" when operated on the pseudo-code s/another/a/ becomes "You need to get yourself a hobby :-)" HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #248,860 by drewk 3/22/06 12:02:58 PM Reply	That code isn't pseudo That's exactly what you would enter to do the replacement. (BTW you're right about what it does.) === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,874 by Another Scott 3/22/06 12:41:07 PM Reply	In csh/edlin/vi/bash or some other line interpreter, no?
Post #248,881 by drewk 3/22/06 1:13:18 PM Reply	Yup === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #248,856 by lincoln 3/22/06 11:28:56 AM Reply	ICLRPD (new thread) Created as new thread #248855 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=248855\|ICLRPD] lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *Citizen* of the United States. [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #248,921 by ChrisR 3/22/06 6:11:50 PM Reply	Think it originated in SED (Shell Editor) Lot's of languages have borrowed and extended the original SED expressions, but the original was just a text editor without a menu system, so if you wanted to do text substitution, you had to issue a s(ubstitution) command. Might I suggest some light reading on SED - [link\|http://onestepback.org/articles/poly/sed.html\|Scott's helpful SED scripts]. :-)
Post #248,922 by pwhysall 3/22/06 6:18:50 PM Reply	sed (lower case please) is the Stream EDitor. And the phrase you're all looking for is "regular expression". Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #248,923 by Steve Lowe 3/22/06 6:21:59 PM Reply	Stream EDitor [link\|http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/\|http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/] And I believe you're right: s/regular expression/replacement/flags Substitute the replacement string for instances of the regular expression in the pattern space. Any character other than backslash or newline can be used instead of a slash to delimit the RE and the replacement. Within the RE and the replacement, the RE delimiter itself can be used as a literal character if it is preceded by a backslash. An ampersand (&) appearing in the replacement will be replaced by the string matching the RE. The special meaning of "&" in this context can be suppressed by preceding it by backslash. The characters \\n, where n is a digit, will be replaced by the text matched by the corresponding backreference expression. For each backslash (\\) encountered in scanning replacement from beginning to end, the following character loses its special meaning (if any). It is unspecified what special meaning is given to any character other than &, \\ or digits. A line can be split by substituting a newline character into it. The application must escape the newline character in the replacement by preceding it by backslash. A substitution is considered to have been performed even if the replacement string is identical to the string that it replaces. The value of flags must be zero or more of: n Substitute for the nth occurrence only of the regular expression found within the pattern space. g Globally substitute for all non-overlapping instances of the regular expression rather than just the first one. If both g and n are specified, the results are unspecified. p Write the pattern space to standard output if a replacement was made. w wfile Write. Append the pattern space to wfile if a replacement was made. -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #248,933 by Another Scott 3/22/06 7:42:02 PM Reply	admin is one crazy cat.
Post #248,584 by jb4 3/20/06 1:50:14 PM Reply	There is NOTHING funny about haggis... ...except maybe watching someone else eating it/them/whatever! jb4 "Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'." &mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration

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