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9.3.3 Modifiers
After the optional word designator, you can add a sequence of one or more
of the following modifiers, each preceded by a ‘:
’.
h
- Remove a trailing pathname component, leaving only the head.
t
- Remove all leading pathname components, leaving the tail.
r
- Remove a trailing suffix of the form ‘
.suffix
’, leaving the basename. e
- Remove all but the trailing suffix.
p
- Print the new command but do not execute it.
q
- Quote the substituted words, escaping further substitutions.
x
- Quote the substituted words as with ‘
q
’, but break into words at spaces, tabs, and newlines. s/old/new/
- Substitute
new
for the first occurrence ofold
in the event line. Any delimiter may be used in place of ‘/
’. The delimiter may be quoted inold
andnew
with a single backslash. If ‘&
’ appears innew
, it is replaced byold
. A single backslash will quote the ‘&
’. The final delimiter is optional if it is the last character on the input line. &
- Repeat the previous substitution.
g
a
- Cause changes to be applied over the entire event line. Used in conjunction with ‘
s
’, as ings/old/new/
, or with ‘&
’. G
- Apply the following ‘
s
’ modifier once to each word in the event.