[plug] help with sed

[Russell Steicke]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:37:23PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> Replace the + with a * and escape the brackets
> 
> ie:
> 
> ps x |grep foo | sed 's/^\ *\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/g'

Thanks, Matt, this works.  But does anyone know why the + doesn't have
the obvious effect (match 1 or more)? Or are sed regexes a lot different
from awk and grep?

>  - Matt

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Russell Steicke

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