Salah Eddine Taouririt
Reputation: 26415
How sed 's/pattern/substitution/2g' really work?
Why echo 'word word word word word word' | sed 's/[a-zA-Z]* /DELETED /2g'
prints word DELETED DELETED DELETED DELETED word ?
Why sed didn't substitute the last word ?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 694
Answers (1)
RichieHindle
Reputation: 281505
Because your regular expression has a trailing space:
/[a-zA-Z]* /
^
It's explicitly searching for zero or more letters followed by a space.
Upvotes: 4
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