sed – need an example for ”\digit”

[Michael Welle]

Hello,

Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> writes:

> 2012/2/26 Michael Welle <mwe012008 at gmx.net>:
[...]
> Thanks.
>  ~$ echo "jag är en ko" | sed 's/\([^ ]* \)\{2\}//'
> en ko
> ~$
>
> Great!
> It's not easy to remember what should be quote and what should not… :)
now let's make a little bit more fun and use -r ;):

~> echo "jag är en ko" | sed -re 's/([^ ]* ){2}//'
en ko

Regards
hmw

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