Re: sed numbered fields don't start from parenthesis

Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
blind Pete <[email protected]> writes:

> $ echo 28th_September_2014 | sed "s/\(sep\).*/\1/i"
> 28th_Sep

The pattern matches "September_2014", which is replaced with "Sep".
Everything else remains untouched.

Andreas.

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