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Substitution in text file **without** regular expressions
Bash can do it!
zInput='string .* to .* search'
zMatch='.*'
zResult=''
while :; do
[[ "$zInput" =~ (.*)("$zMatch")(.*) ]] || break
zResult="replacement${BASH_REMATCH[3]...
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How do I delete every ocurrence of a word that is followed by another, without altering the whitespace?
With anything which supports perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE), you can use a positive lookahead:
perl -pe 's/foo(?=.*bar)//' < txt
(?=) is a "zero-width positive lookahead assertion&...
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How do I delete every ocurrence of a word that is followed by another, without altering the whitespace?
OK, I found out how to do this. The command to do this with sed would be:
sed -i -E 's/foo([[:blank:]]*)bar/\1bar/' file
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Substitution in text file **without** regular expressions
After reading through the many answers here and not finding a straightforward way to do find + replace with string literals (not regular expressions) with sed / git grep:
I wrote a small CLI tool to ...
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