sed made comprehensible!

I needed a regex for a Makefile in an ebuild I was working on, and hit a problem. I needed to match part of a line, discarding the rest and repacing it with something else. This was slightly beyond my experience, having only ever done

:%s/foo/bar/g

in vim before.

I joined #sed on freenode for some advice, and being a good internet citizen I followed their links in the /topic before I asked. Wow, was I in for a surprise finally a sed introduction that is easy to follow and clear. Thank you so much!

My first proper regex, of which I am inordinately proud (put together with no interactive help or direct advice).

sed 's:\(VERSION \=\).*:\1 foo:'

Thank you Grymoire!

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