Hello Luc, On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:33:42 +0200 Luc MAIGNAN <luc.maignan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 : Luc, if you replied to my email (instead of a previous on in the thread), this means that you ignored the 3 other replies in that thread that brought the solution to the OP. More over, replying to my email does nothing but confusing the topic, since I introduced another idea. Please read the thread before replying blindly! Regards, > 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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, > > > > -- fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- wwp
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