perl/bash question - html link out of text

[Mark Knoop]

At 18:07 on 07 Mar 2010, Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> I don't know how to modify the:
> 
> sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,<a href=\"\1\">\1</a>,'
> 
> command, to not just:
> $ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r
> 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,<a href=\"\1\">\1</a>,'
> <a href="http://somewhere.uk/">http://somewhere.uk/</a>
> 
> rather output this:
> test string <a href="http://somewhere.uk/">http://somewhere.uk/</a>
> test

$ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | \
    sed -r 's,(.*)(http://[^\"$ ]+)(.*),\1<a href=\"\2\">\2</a>\3,'

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Mark Knoop