I have a file whose lines are Italian words that end in [aiou]'
gia'
giacche'
giovedi'
giu'
I want to replace these lines with the autohotkey commands that would allow me to write these words with an apostrophe and automatically translate them in their correct versions, that is i want to get
::gia'::già
::giacche'::giacché
::giovedi'::giovedì
::giu'::giù
I know I can accomplish this with sed, but I couldn't get it to work. I know there is a variable to store the whole line, but I can't find it. If it were @ the following might work
sed -e "s/.a'/::@::@\b\bà/" temp
sed -e "s/.i'/::@::@\b\bì/" temp
sed -e "s/.o'/::@::@\b\bò/" temp
sed -e "s/.u'/::@::@\b\bù/" temp
Please note that while the lines are in alphabetical order they DO NOT all start in g, nor there is a pattern in the last two characters of the word.
So do you know what is the variable I'm looking for? Do you think there is a better solution to my problem than the one I'm trying?
The variable you're looking for is &. Perhaps something like:
sed -e "s/\(.*\)a'/::&::\1à/" temp
You can also string all of your commands together for all five vowels:
sed -e "s/\(.*\)a'/::&::\1à/" -e "s/\(.*\)e'/::&::\1é/" -e "s/\(.*\)i'/::&::\1ì/" -e "s/\(.*\)o'/::&::\1ò/" -e "s/\(.*\)u'/::&::\1ù/" temp
If you have GNU sed:
sed -re "s/(.+)a'/::&::\1à/" -e "s/(.+)e'/::&::\1é/" -e "s/(.+)i'/::&::\1ì/" -e "s/(.+)o'/::&::\1ò/" -e "s/(.+)u'/::&::\1ù/" temp