sed does not work as expected

[Mark Sheppard]

[NOTE: this is not a Cygwin specific question and is therefore off topic]

The * can match zero or more occurences, so it's matching the "a" and
a zero length string.  Try this instead:

  echo ./a/a/a/w | sed -n 's,[^/][^/]*,..,gp'

Mark.

-----Original Message-----
From: dontspam@gmx.net [mailto:dontspam@gmx.net]
Sent: 16 September 2002 14:59
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: sed does not work as expected


Hi, 

I would like to transform a string with
echo ./a/a/a/w | sed -n '1,$ s/[^\/]*/../gp'
I get 
..../..../..../..../..
but I expected to get 
../../../../..

Can someone tell what's going wrong?

Thanks

  Franz

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