Why is sed removing the greater than symbol
Question
The less-than symbol is removed when I run my sed command.
a::b<type::value> & d
a::b<ns::type::value>& d
sed -i 's/[^:]type/changed::type/g'
results in
a::bchanged::type::value> & d
a::b<ns::type::value>& d
I expected to actually get the following:
a::b<changed::type::value> & d
a::b<ns::type::value>& d
Why is the less-than symbol removed? How can I keep it?
1 answers
solution1
3 ACCPTED 2019-05-08 21:48:15
The symbol gets removed because it matches [^:] "not a colon", as part of the string to be replaced. You can bypass that by capturing it and putting it back:
sed -i 's/\([^:]\)type/\1changed::type/g'
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