sed question

Thursday, 21 July 2016

Hey guys..

Sed question.. should be simple, but after stack/net searches, lots or
trials.. can't seem to get it..

I've got a case

foo('txt')
foo("txt")

I'd like to have

foo('/dir1/txt')
foo("/dir1/txt")

Now. I do a simple sed search/replace if it just focuses on the txt, but
crafting a sed that uses the entire input as a search due to the parens
'()' is a bit painful!  Doing the sed using the \( for the ( wasn't quite
successful!

for just the txt..

sed -i 's/'txt'/'dir1/txt'/' *files.dat
sed -i 's/"txt"/"dir1/txt"/' *files.dat

these work...

any thoughts on how to handle the parens would be cool!

just irks me that I couldn't see what I missed.

thanks!