Johann Siebers wrote:
> Hello sed experts,
>
> my original line looks like this:
>
> Locationfile://localhost/d:/My%20Music/mp3/311/From%20Chaos/10%20Amber.mp3
>
> and shall be modified to look like this:
>
> Locationfile://localhost/d:/My%20Music/mp3/10%20Amber.mp3
>
> I am stumped. Can someone help me find the right sed-command?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated!
>
> Joh.

sed 's?311/From%20Chaos/??'

Ed.

Finally found a solution:

sed 's/\(^.*Location.*\)\/mp3\/.*\(\/\{1,1\}[^/]*\/string.*\)/\1\/mp3\2/'

Thanks for trying anyway!

Johann Siebers wrote:
> Finally found a solution:
>
> sed 's/\(^.*Location.*\)\/mp3\/.*\(\/\{1,1\}[^/]*\/string.*\)/\1\/mp3\2/'
>
> Thanks for trying anyway!

Your expression does not work with all sed versions, and can be simplified to

sed 's?^\(.*Location.*/mp3\)/.*\(/[^/]*/string.*\)?\1\2?'


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In article eobsf9$vc$1@aioe.org, dated Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:11:19 +0100,
Johann Siebers wrote:

> Finally found a solution:
>
> sed
> 's/\(^.*Location.*\)\/mp3\/.*\(\/\{1,1\}[^/]*\/string.*\)/\1\/mp3\2/'
>
> Thanks for trying anyway!

This is overkill, and needlessly complex.

Do be aware that you don't necessarily *have* to use "/" as the delimiter
character in sed expressions, just as long as you're consistent as far as
whatever delimiter you choose, i.e., be sure to use the same delimiter
throughout the expression.

When I write sed expressions that operate on pathnames including slashes,
I generally use "#" as the delimiter to avoid the need to escape each and
every occurrence of the "/" character within the expression.

It looks like all you want to do is simply chop out the section containing
"/311/From%20Chaos" from the original line, correct? As such, one
solution might be:

sed -e 's#/311/From%20Chaos##'

Simple, no? :-)

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