sed to replace random numbers

Question

Hello,

i need to let sed replace some url in alot of file each file has the following
http://www.expample.com/file.php?id=xxxxxxx
where xxxxx consist of random numbers , random depth in each file like
file 1
_h**p://www.expample.com/file.php?id=xx
file 2
_h**p://www.expample.com/file.php?id=xxxxxxxx
etc
thanks in advance

Answer 1

sed -e "s/(http:\/\/www\.example\.com\/file\.php\?id=\d+)([^\d]|$)/YOUR_REPLACEMENT\2"

should do it... Untested though, I'm sitting at a sed-less Windows box right now.

Answer 2

As the comments say you will need to tell us what you want to replace them with.

But in the mean time something to chew on

sed s/id\=[0-9]+/id\=/     file*.*

if they are hex digits

sed s/id\=[0-9A-Fa-f]+/id\=/     file*.*