Re: regex search and replace

[Alexis Roda]

En/na Gary Wessle ha escrit:
> Hi
>
> I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the
> following.
>
> I have few lines in the format 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar
>   ...
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham
>
> I want to end up with 
> { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" }
>
> so my step by step approach is to remove the 
> "  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 "
>
> then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb.

M-x replace-regexp RET ^.*\(\w\{3\}\)\(\w\{3\}\)$ RET "\1/\2" RET

You can find more info on REs here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Regexps.html#Regexps

> then to replace end of line with (", ")

M-x replace RET C-q C-j RET ,<SPC> RET




HTH