techaddressed, 7 months ago

@adamsdesk

adamsdesk, 7 months ago

@techaddressed 😆 and a Star Trek reference 😁.

techaddressed, 7 months ago

@adamsdesk I had seen this a long while ago and created this better looking version to use in a blog post lol

adamsdesk, 7 months ago

@techaddressed It's rare for me to find a meme funny, but you got me.

adamsdesk, 7 months ago

@techaddressed The house has honor again. 🙂

techaddressed, 7 months ago

@adamsdesk Qapla'!

adamsdesk, 7 months ago

@techaddressed Qapla'!

hyde, 7 months ago

@adamsdesk Just use #vim :

:s'//'-'g

adamsdesk, 7 months ago

@hyde Thank you, but this is a script that assists creating a new blog posts. It seems to be working well now.

hjr265, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

@adamsdesk I don't think the pattern you pass there can be a regular expression. Bash has its own pattern matching rules.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Pattern-Matching.html

I think this does what you are trying to do (replace 2 or more consecutive dashes with a single dash):

string="Hello-World! #debug command---line"  
string="${string//-+(-)/-}"  

But this will work only if you enable extglob first:

shopt -s extglob  

Alternatively, use sed:

string=`echo "$string" | sed -e 's/--\+/-/g'`  

adamsdesk, 7 months ago

@hjr265 Oh really, I thought one could. That would explain why it's not working as desired.

I needed a different perspective. Thanks for a working solution.

GreatBigTable, 7 months ago

@adamsdesk what does it output?

adamsdesk, 7 months ago

@GreatBigTable Here is the output...

Hello-World! #debug command---line/-