replacing the last occurence of a character in a line

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September 8th, 2005, 08:54 AM

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replacing the last occurence of a character in a line

Hi everybody

I know this sentence to replace the first occurrence of a comma in a line by a point:

Code:

sed -e "s/,/./"

but I want to replace just the last occurence of a comma in a line

Can anyone tell me how?

thanks in advance

September 8th, 2005, 09:46 AM

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echo 'abc,def,12379,foo' | sed 's/\(.*\),/\1./'

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