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bug#31781: I apologize it's not the right place, but I need answer
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Eric Blake |
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bug#31781: I apologize it's not the right place, but I need answer |
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Tue, 12 Jun 2018 06:27:31 -0500 |
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On 06/12/2018 04:04 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
How to use SED command(s) that will replace the shell's pipe command in
order to perform more efficient, e.g:
echo abcde | sed -r 's/cd/XX/' | sed 's/[^x]/z/ig'
Many times, it IS possible to use a single sed process instead of a
pipeline of two consecutive sed processes, or to turn 'grep ... | sed
...' into a single sed process. But this is not universally true -
there are some cases where pipelining two sed processes together is
required (where no single sed process will accomplish the same task).
So, there is no generic way to rewrite a sed pipeline into a single script.
For an example, typical configure scripts produced by Autoconf include
this pipeline, including the comment:
# Blame Lee E. McMahon (1931-1989) for sed's syntax. :-)
sed -n '
p
/[$]LINENO/=
' <$as_myself |
sed '
s/[$]LINENO.*/&-/
t lineno
b
:lineno
N
:loop
s/[$]LINENO\([^'$as_cr_alnum'_].*\n\)\(.*\)/\2\1\2/
t loop
s/-\n.*//
' >$as_me.lineno
There is NO WAY to rewrite that into a single sed process (the first
process prints every line and also appends a line number line any time
literal '$LINENO' was seen; the second process then folds the line
numbers in place of the '$LINENO' occurrences). But then again, that
second use of sed is much more involved than your typical one-liner
substitution.
The portable way is to use multiple "-e" parameters:
$ echo abcde | sed -e 's/cd/XX/' -e 's/[^x]/z/ig'
zzXXzz
That should work on all sed, not just gnu sed.
Yes, when combining two one-liner substitutions that both operate on
every line, that should work. But once the sed script gets more
involved, such as using 'sed -n' with 's///p' or using addresses to
limit which lines are acted on, you have to be sure that the second half
of your rewrite only performs in the same cases where it would get
output from the first half when it was two separate processes.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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