[ale] Regular expression for sed

[Danny Cox]

Dow,

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 13:41, Dow Hurst wrote:
> I need to find lines in a file that contain the number 273 with no 
> spaces after it and add 10 spaces after the number.  How should I do this?

	Well,

		sed 's/273[^ ]/273          /g' file >file.new

	should do it.

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Danny


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