[ale] Regular expression for sed

[Dow Hurst]

Worked like a charm! Â Thanks! Â Been meaning to study regular expressions
and got the O'Reilly book but haven't made time for it. Â Thank you again.
 I needed to not select other 273 values in the file that did have a space
or two after them so this worked great.
Dow


Danny Cox wrote:

  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.