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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:07:32+00:00

I am trying to do a search and replace using GREP/Regex Here is what

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I am trying to do a search and replace using GREP/Regex

Here is what I am searching for

<div align="center" class="orange-arial-11"><b>.+<br>

I want to remove the <b>, <br> tags, and place <h3> tags around what .+ finds.

But I can’t get what .+ finds to stay when it does the replace.

For example, I want to find this

<div align="center" class="orange-arial-11"><b>This is the section I want intact<br>

to change to this

<div align="center" class="orange-arial-11"><h3>This is the section I want intact</h3>

Any help is appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use sed instead of grep:

    # Modify the file in-place
sed -i~ 's|\(<div align="center" class="orange-arial-11">\)<b>\(.\+\)<br>|\1<h3>\2</h3>|' the-file
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