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regex back references

new regex discovery - backreferences, v nice. eg:
sed -E 's/([0-9]+):([0-9]+$)/1,2/' - match numbers colon numbers and replace the colon with a comma. the parentheses (brackets) remember and can then be used again with 1 2 etc

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