Filtering out emoticons using sed
- by user349222
Hello,
I have a grep expression using cygwin grep on Win.
grep -a "\\,,/\|\\m/\|\\m/\\>\.</\\m/\|:u" all_fbs.txt > rockon_fbs.txt
Once I identify the emoticon class, however, I want to strip them out of the data. However, the same regexp above within a sed results in a syntax error (yes, I realize I could use /d instead of //g, but this doesn't make a difference, I still get the error.)
sed "s/\(\\,,/\|\\m/\|\\m/\\>\.</\\m/\|:u\)*//g"
The full line is:
grep -a "\\,,/\|\\m/\|\\m/\\>\.</\\m/\|:u" all_fbs.txt | sed "s/\(\\,,/\|\\m/\|\\m/\\>\.</\\m/\|:u\)*//g" | sed "s/^/ROCKON\t/" > rockon_fbs.txt
The result is:
sed: -e expression #1, char 14: unknown option to `s'
I know it's coming from the sed regexp I'm asking about it b/c if I remove that portion of the full line, then I get no error (but, of course, the emoticons are not filtered out).
Thanks in advance,
Steve
