I have a text file containing :
A 25 27 50
B 35 75
C 75 78
D 99 88 76
I wanted to delete the line that does not have the fourth field(the fourth pair of digits). Expected output :
A 25 27 50
D 99 88 76
I know that awk command would be the best option for such task, but i'm wondering what's the problem with my sed command since it should work as you can see below :
sed -E '/^[ABCD] ([0-9][0-9]) \1$/d' text.txt
Using POSIX ERE with back-referencing (\1) to refer to the previous pattern surrounded with parenthesis.
I have tried this command instead :
sed -E '/^[ABCD] ([0-9][0-9]) [0-9][0-9]$/d' text.txt
But it seems to delete only the first occurrence of what i want. I would appreciate further explanation of,
- why the back-referencing doesn't work as expected.
- what's the matter with the first occurrence in the second attempt,should i included global option if yes then how, since i already tried adding it at the end along side with /d (for delete) but it didn't work .
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