[GLLUG] Bash scripting problem

[Andy Smith]

Hi John,

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 06:10:39PM +0100, John Levin wrote:
> On 16/05/2017 15:28, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote:
> >$ echo "An ad to" | sed -e "s/\bad\b/act/g"

> Many thanks for this, presume the \b mean \ before the space.

'\b' matches word boundaries:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1032023/sed-whole-word-search-and-replace

Cheers,
Andy

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