Problem I was trying to get sed command to do the same thing I could do with Python regex flavour, but I encountered some problems Python regex example: (tested it on regex101 and it was working fine) find: (https.*?) replace: "\1" Unsuccessful code: sed 's/\(https.*?\)[:space:]/\"\1\"/g' .\elenco.txt elenco.txt file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ot34P0yyQqI&t=984s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vviniZjvDQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7qgkyo_oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6UEDpwI3HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShgaRMNlLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd_jN-C_Juw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtqox2uB3Y Expected output: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ot34P0yyQqI&t=984s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vviniZjvDQs" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7qgkyo_oo" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6UEDpwI3HI" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShgaRMNlLw" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd_jN-C_Juw" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtqox2uB3Y" Actual output: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?"pp=desktop&v=Ot34P0yyQqI&t=984s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vviniZjvDQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7qgkyo_oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6UEDpwI3HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShgaRMNlLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd_jN-C_Juw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtqox2uB3Y Info OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Home Version: 10.0.26100 N/D build 26100 installed sed through winget install bmatzelle.Gow I've always avoided using POSIX regex etc, as I found it unnecessarily complicated / limited compared to using perl/python etc. and the regex flavour available there. Any other options than to install Perl/Python? 200MB for StrawberryPerl (Perl on Windows) seems to be quite overkill and useless bloat just to have access to perl flavour regex, and sed unlike perl doen't support 'easy' regex... https://askubuntu.com/questions/1050693/sed-with-pcre-like-grep-p Continue reading...
