nixCraft

Hello,

I'm using sed to replace n occurrences.
But when I wan to replace my 10th occurrence with the \10, I get replaced with the first occurrence and the number 0.
Here is part of my command:

s:\([0-9];\)\([0-9];\)\([0-9];\)......\([0-9];\)\([0-9];\):\1,\2,\3......,\10,\11:g

I have tried '\10' etc.. but I don't find the exact expression.
Can you help me please?

Replace \10 with \\10

I am new to shell scripting, and i have many files that need editing. My problem is some lines end with a / and I need to find the next line after this and join the two together.

I have found the following one liners but i am unable to rearrange them to come up with what i need.

script 1:
# if a line ends with a backslash, append the next line to it
/bin/sed -e :a -e '/\\$/N; s/\\\n//; ta' < input.file> output.file

script 2:
# if a line begins with an equal sign, append it to the previous line
# and replace the "=" with a single space
#/bin/sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n=/ /;ta' -e 'P;D' < input.file> output.file

I would be grateful is someone could point me in the right direction, all the help files and faqs i have come across do not show all posiblities and / or what all the characters mean.

thanks