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sed Examples

Heads up

These examples got mangled in a site transition. TODO: is to get them fixed.

Starting to collect some of the sed command I run. Not sure if they'll be interesting or not.

Note

A good enhancement would be to make little snippts instead of full thing. Like how do I capture a parenthesis

Convert markdown images to neopolitan

<<aws-20120918--1724-02.jpg|img|caption: Image: aws-20120918--1724-02.jpg>>

Code

sed -E -i "" 's/\!\[Image: [^]]+\]\(([^\)]+)\)/<<\1|img>>/g' a.txt

Results

TODO: Fix this result
<<link|![image](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/11th_grade.png)|http://xkcd.com/519/>>

Code

sed -E -i "" 's/\[\!\[image\]\(([^\)]+)\)([^\)]+)\)/<<\1|img>>/g' a.txt

Results

<<https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/11th_grade.png|img>>
!<<link|My Father's Flag|/images/aws-20120427--1127-01>>

Code

sed -E -i "" 's/\!\[([^\]+)]\(([^\)]+)\)/<<\2|img|caption: \1>>/g'

Results

<</images/aws-20120427--1127-01|img|caption: My Father's Flag>>