YA{sed}{question}

[Tim Radzykewycz]

In article <294 at geowhiz.UUCP> larry at geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
>[input]
>{garbage}#{complete garbage}#{more garbage}
>....

>[desired output]
>{garbage}#{complete garbage}{more garbage}
>....

[has been using:]
>sed -e 's/#[^#]*#/&YUCK/g' -e 's/#YUCK//g'

Better is:
sed -e 's/#\([^#]*\)#/#\1/g'

There is a reasonably good description of regular expressions (as used
by sed) in the man page for ed.
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