RE: sed & or

I got this command to work properly using your multiple pattern suggestion (with help from Google):
sed 's|<Tag />|<Tag>Value</Tag>|; s|<Tag></Tag>|<Tag>Value</Tag>|'' file_path

Thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 11:43 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: sed & or

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/19/2018
12:24:32 PM:

Can anyone tell me how to get sed to work with an OR pattern match?
If I try the standard pipe character, the command fails. I found on
Google to escape the pipe with a backslash. That command runs, but
the pattern doesn't match.

Here's what I have that works (just one pattern):
sed 's|<Tag />|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path

This command runs but doesn't match either pattern:
sed 's|<Tag />\|<Tag></Tag>|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path

I haven't tried doing an OR in a single pattern. But, the following is what I use to successfully execute more than one pattern at a time. (Variable substitutions are performed before I use the string in
QSH.)

sed -i -e 's|~&1|~&2|g' -e 's|_&1|_&2|g' &path


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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