Re: sed & or

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

well, for one thing, in delimiting the sed pattern, you could use
leading-slash s/foo/bar/

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:24 AM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to get sed to work with an OR pattern match?  If I
> try the standard pipe character, the command fails.  I found on Google to
> escape the pipe with a backslash.  That command runs, but the pattern
> doesn't match.
>
> Here's what I have that works (just one pattern):
> sed 's|<Tag />|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path
>
> This command runs but doesn't match either pattern:
> sed 's|<Tag />\|<Tag></Tag>|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path
>
> TIA
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