Question

My problem is that the regex .* doesn’t seem to match specials characters which appear like:

\200
\201
\202
...

(in emacs).

I have a file with some values between separators like:

[a].[b]

and I want to display them like this :

a=b

so I use a regex :

sed 's/^\[\(.*\)\]\.\[\(.*\)\]/\1=\2/g' toto

It works but when the characters between the [] are characters like \200 sed doesn’t work, as if .* doesn’t match those characters.

Does anyone have an idea?

Answer 1

Use perl:

perl -pe 's,^\[([^]]+)\]\.\[([^]]+)\],$1=$2,' toto