SED Question.

[charlie1105]

I'm looking for a way to get sed to look for string and only that string i.e to find "or" but not "for" or "organise" or "fore" etc. I know that with grep you can use '-w' to search for whole words, but I can't find anyway of doing this with sed, can anyone help?

 

[Krunek]

Hello, charlie1105!

If you must find only word "or", you can use this regular expression:

/ or / || /$or / || / or$/

First regular expression finds whole word "or". Second - "or" at the beginning of the line. Third - at the end of line.

But this won't find this pattern: or.

HTH. Bye!

KP.

 

[Krunek]

Sorry, charlie1105!

I did little mistake. This is correct regExp that also match "or.":

/ or[ .]/ || /^or / || / or$/

Bye!

KP.