Changing a string in 1500 documents

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Hello dear people,

I have a bit of a problem, I need to change something and I am not sure how.

I need to change

(see: Codification)

To look like.

[[Codification]]

Of course the word codification can also look like

(see: PrimaryLegislation)

And then it needs to be

[[Primary Legislation]]

Can someone please write this little conversion for me? It is for MediaWiki (obviously)

I can only do the first part I think

/(see:/[[/g

But that is about as far as I get,

Last edited by externalaw; Oct 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am.

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Re: Changing a string in 1500 documents

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sed 's/(see: \([^)]*\))/[[\1]]/'
sed 's/(see: \([^)]*\))/[[\1]]/'

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sed 's_(see: Codification)_[[Codification]]_'

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