Scripting / one liner help

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/8/10 Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>:
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2011/8/10 Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>:
>> >
>> > See if this gets close to extracting the image names ...
>> > grep SRC *html | sed -r 's/SRC="([^"]+)"/\1/ig' | whatever_script.sh
>>
>> I didn't create this thread, but can you please explain that sed
>> statement? I don't get it… (I'm not a beginner with regular
>> expressions but I'm definitely not an expert either…)
>>
>
> Its attempting to capture the string in between:
>  SRC="  and the next doublequote: ".  The [^"] stops the capture at the next
> double quote. The capture should then include any character that is NOT a
> double quote. If not careful, the expression could get "greedy" and start
> matching other double quotes on the same line.  This should stop that
> effect. The \1 is a reference back to the capture that is in the
> parenthesis, in sed syntax, which essentially just preserves the captured
> characters, and ignores the rest. Does that make sense?

Aaaah…! Thanks! I always forget that ^ means NOT in some situations,
that happened to me before (I should learn some time, shouldn't I?)…!
I just didn't get it when I thought of ^ in its other meaning…


Best regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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