Question

I have one file contains several lines, each line has the format like

2011-07-10 condition hhh aaa: value bbb
2011-07-10 condition ccc aaa: value bbb

I want to use sed to find the value string, which is between “aaa:” and “bbb”, and replace to “gotit” based on the condition that the string following condition is ccc. and after sed, this file becomes

  2011-07-10 condition hhh aaa: value bbb
  2011-07-10 condition ccc aaa: gotit bbb

Answer 1

Given my limited knowledge of sed/regex:

sed 's/\(condition ccc.*aaa: \).*\( bbb$\)/\1gotit\2/' file