Re: need help with sed

[Luc MAIGNAN <luc maignan winxpert com>]

Hello,

it is a normal feature because your regex works on only one caracter ':' 
and not all. You should use 'g' as 'global' modifyer to do what you want :


echo 2008:04:23 | sed 's/://g'

Regards

wwp a écrit :
> Hello Guillaume,
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:58:29 +0200 Guillaume <guillaume chardin gmail com> wrote:
>
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I run this command:
> >      echo  2008:04:23 | sed 's/://'
> > The result is
> >      200804:23
> >
> > I expect to have this :
> >      20080423
> >
> > What is wrong with my very simple regexp  ':' why all occurence of the
> > char ':' are not deleted ?
> >
> > its make me crazy, can someone help me ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >     
>
> For this exact same purpose - removing all occurrences of some specific
> char(s) - you could have used `tr`, like in:
>
> # echo 2008:04:23 | tr -d :
>
>
> Regards,
>
>