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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

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# If you'd like to omit non-matching lines from the result; add ';d' to the end of the expression. sed -E 's/<slot-configuration slot-id="refinebar-slot-content" context="category" context-id="(.*)" configuration-id="(.*?)"( default="(?:.*)?")? assigned-to-site="(.*)">\s*<template>(.*)<\\/template>\s*<enabled-flag>(.*)<\\/enabled-flag>\s*<content>\s*<content-assets>(\s*<content-asset content-id=".*"\\/>)*\s*<content-asset content-id="(seo-.*)"\\/>\s*(?:<content-asset content-id=".*"\\/>\s*)*<\\/content-assets>\s*<\\/content>(\s*<customer-groups>(?:\s*<customer-group group-id=".*"\\/>)+\s*<\\/customer-groups>|.*)?\s*<\\/slot-configuration>/$0 <slot-configuration slot-id="mobile-refinebar-slot-content" context="category" context-id="$1" configuration-id="$2-mobile"$3 assigned-to-site="$4"> <template>$5<\/template> <enabled-flag>$6<\/enabled-flag> <content> <content-assets> <content-asset content-id="$8"\/> <\/content-assets> <\/content>$9 <\/slot-configuration>/gm;t' <<< " <slot-configuration slot-id=\"refinebar-slot-content\" context=\"category\" context-id=\"sport-garcon\" configuration-id=\"seo-boutique-sport-garcon-2\" default=\"true\" assigned-to-site=\"true\"> <template>slots/content/htmljustcontent.isml</template> <enabled-flag>true</enabled-flag> <content> <content-assets> <content-asset content-id=\"seo-boutique-bbf-2\"/> <content-asset content-id=\"account-menu-content-management\"/> <content-asset content-id=\"seo-boutique-sport-garcon\"/> </content-assets> </content> </slot-configuration> "

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for SED, please visit: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s_0022-Command.html