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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@ter...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:56:44 +0100

>If I try sth. like
>/( b(.)b)/a/\1\2/
>on
>bla blb 56
>I get
>bla blb\1\2 56
>which is not quite what I want... How then? (I'd like to get 'bla blblblb 56')

echo bla blb 56 | sed 's/( b(.)b)/&\1\2/'
bla blb blbl 56

similarly use `s' not `a' in sam.