[vox-tech] Using awk or perl to find and replace

[Ken Bloom]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:33:56PM -0800, Trevor M. Lango wrote:
> I have been reading the man pages and I'm lost. ?I want to scan through 
> an input file for an expression with this pattern:
> 
> ? ? h.*.JPG
> 
> and replace it with an expression with the following pattern:
> 
> ? ? *.h.JPG
> 
> Perl and awk both appear to be ideal candidates for just such a task 
> but I'm a serious newbie to both of 'em. ?Any help much appreciated!

sed -e 's/h\.\(.*\)\.jpg/\1.h.jpg/g'

--Ken Bloom

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