[aclug-L] Re: dumb sed problem

[Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

in perl you can do /\babc\b/ijk/
where \b means match at a word boundry. 
I'm not sure how to do something similar in sed



On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:30, Maverick wrote:
> 
> Hi, all
>    I have a file
> #myfile
> abc abcde abc abcdefg abc abcde
> abc abc abcdef abce
> 
> I want to use sed to replace the exact word "abc" to
> "ijk", 
> sed 's/abc/ijk/g' myfile
> 
> it replace all to the ijk, but I only want abc
> like
> #myfile
> ijk abcde ijk abcdefg ijk abcde
> ijk ijk abcdef abce
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mav
> 
> 
> 
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