[Asterisk-Users] How to quickly replace ', ' with '|' in dialplans?

[Michael D Schelin]

Just asking the forum community - Is there an advantage in changing the 
syntax?


Steve wrote:

> 
> I stink at regular expressions, but can always find what I need to get a 
> job done using google :-)
> 
> Don't use vi (unless you figure out how to do it in vi).
> I won't be much help there.
> 
> in this case sed is your friend.
> 
> It's a breeze to use too.
> 
> Here's what it looks like:  sed -e "s/text_to_find/text_to_replace/g" 
> inputfile > outputfile
> and yup you can use the same name for both files to simply update the file.
> 
> Make sure you back it up first of course.
> 
> Here's a link with some more examples using sed: 
> http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/sed.html
> 
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Steve
> 
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> 
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 kleis-asterisk-dev at tiscali.it wrote:
> 
>> Finally I decided to rewrite my dialplans according to the right sintax,
>> that is
>>
>> exten => someexten,priority,application(arg1,arg2,...)
>>
>> should be
>>
>> exten => someexten,priority,application,arg1|arg2...
>>
>>
>> Isn't there anybody skilled enough in regular expressions that could 
>> write
>> a quick Search 'n' Replace vi command, please?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Alex
>>
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