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What does this notation mean: "s/descriptive/proscriptive/g" ?

• cochne 6y ago
  This means find and replace descriptive with proscriptive. It is a pattern used by Vim and Sed, and probably some other programs.
  • virgil_disgr4ce 6y ago
    It's regex, vim and sed just happen to use it
• Jtsummers 6y ago
  Substitute <pattern> with <replacement> globally. https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s_0022-Command.html https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s...
• adwn 6y ago
  Replace all occurrences of 'descriptive' with 'proscriptive'
• pdkl95 6y ago
  It's originally from sed's "s"ubstitute command[1], and later incorporated into many other tools. The "s" at the front is the command name, which is followed by two sections delimited by "/"; these are regex pattern that is matched on the input, and the replacement string. The final "g" is an optional "global" flag that requests that all matches inthe input should be substituted, instead of only the first. s/ ...matching regex... / ...replacement string... /g The use in the parent post therefor means: "Replace every 'descriptive' in the text with the string 'proscriptive'." [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s_0022-Command.html https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s...