sed addresses [SOLVED]

Vu Pham vu at sivell.com
Wed Jan 6 11:31:35 PST 2010


Never mind. I ran it in the wrong directory !!!!! :(


On 01/06/2010 12:52 PM, Vu Pham wrote:
> I am trying to use the syntax 1,addr2 in sed as follows:
>
> -e "1,/^create/ s/ xxx/ yyy/g"
>
> My purpose is to replace all the words "xxx" with the words "yyy" from
> line 1 to the line that starts with "create".
>
> It just does not work. IT works when I replace addr2 ( /^create/ ) with
> some number like 10. But the fact is the addr2 varies.
>
> Thanks for your advice,
>
> Vu



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