sed replace match exactly word

On Apr 21, 10:34*am, ric wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> *I want find and replace a exactly word, but i'm getting this:
>
> #echo "for forward"|sed 's/for/XXX/g'
> XXX XXXward
> #
>
> I need get this:
> "XXX forward"
>
> I was searching and reading,but no luck yet,
>
> Regards,
> * *-ric



#echo "FOR for forward forteen for for"|sed -e 's/for/XXX/'
FOR XXX forward forteen for for
#

but I need get this:
FOR XXX forward forteen XXX XXX



regards
-ric

On 4/21/2008 11:34 AM, ric wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I want find and replace a exactly word, but i'm getting this:
>
> #echo "for forward"|sed 's/for/XXX/g'
> XXX XXXward
> #
>
> I need get this:
> "XXX forward"
>
> I was searching and reading,but no luck yet,
>
> Regards,
> -ric

This will work with some (GNU) versions of sed:

$ echo "for forward"|sed 's/\/XXX/g'
XXX forward

Ed.

On 21 abr, 10:52, Ed Morton wrote:
> On 4/21/2008 11:34 AM, ric wrote:
>
> > Hi people,
>
> > *I want find and replace a exactly word, but i'm getting this:
>
> > #echo "for forward"|sed 's/for/XXX/g'
> > XXX XXXward
> > #
>
> > I need get this:
> > "XXX forward"
>
> > I was searching and reading,but no luck yet,
>
> > Regards,
> > * *-ric
>
> This will work with some (GNU) versions of sed:
>
> $ echo "for forward"|sed 's/\/XXX/g'
> XXX forward
>
> * * * * Ed.

Thanks for your help Ed!
-ric

On Apr 22, 2:34 am, ric wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I want find and replace a exactly word, but i'm getting this:
>
> #echo "for forward"|sed 's/for/XXX/g'
> XXX XXXward
> #
>
> I need get this:
> "XXX forward"
>
> I was searching and reading,but no luck yet,
>
> Regards,
> -ric

echo "for forward"|sed 's/for /XXX /g'

Thats substitute for + the space with XXX + the space


Owen

echo "for forwarded" | sed 's/for/www/'
will give u www forwarded.remove the trailing g character.

On 4/22/2008 3:57 AM, deepak wrote:

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> On 4/21/2008 11:34 AM, ric wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> I want find and replace a exactly word, but i'm getting this:
>>
>> #echo "for forward"|sed 's/for/XXX/g'
>> XXX XXXward

> echo "for forwarded" | sed 's/for/www/'
> will give u www forwarded.remove the trailing g character.

That won't work on all the words in the input line and will wrongly match longer
words that contain "for" if they appear earlier in the line. Read the previous
responses in the thread for the solution (and, just a suggestion, but in future
it's worth reading the previous responses before posting yours...).

Ed.