[buug] more specific

johnd john at jjdev.com
Wed Apr 30 14:32:31 PDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:29:18PM -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:19:59PM -0700, johnd wrote:
> > > kronos# cat testfile | sed -e "s:UserID=oldid:UserID=newid:g" > newfile
> > 
> > yea, the thinkg is oldid is always different, that is why I am asking
> > for a regex to find everthing that is UserID to the &
> 
> 	Since you mentioned VI, this works in vim:
> 
> 	:%s/UserID=.\{-}&/UserID=foo\&/
> _______________________________________________


thanks, that does it



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