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Sed Cheatsheet

This document provides an overview of common sed commands and options for manipulating text from the command line. It summarizes sed syntax, common substitution commands and flags, and other commands for printing/deleting/inserting lines. It also covers more advanced sed features like grouping patterns, multi-line processing, and looping.

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Sed Cheatsheet

This document provides an overview of common sed commands and options for manipulating text from the command line. It summarizes sed syntax, common substitution commands and flags, and other commands for printing/deleting/inserting lines. It also covers more advanced sed features like grouping patterns, multi-line processing, and looping.

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Sed Cheat Sheet Sed command line options Sed syntax: sed [options] sed-command [input-file] -n -i -f -e Suppress default

pattern space printing Backup and modify input file directly Execute sed script file Execute multiple sed commands

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sed -n '3 p' employee.txt sed -ibak 's/John/Johnny/' employee.txt sed -f script.sed employee.txt sed -e 'command1' -e 'command2' input-file

Sed substitute command and flags Syntax: sed 's/ori inal-strin /replacement-strin /[fla s]' [input-file] g flag 1,2.. flag p flag " flag i flag e flag %&'() * ,- ,. ,1 ,2 ,/ Global substitution Substitute t e nt occurrence !rint only t e substituted line #rite only t e substituted line to a file $gnore case " ile searc ing Substitute and execute in t e command line Substitution delimiter can be any c aracter Gets t e matc ed pattern. +se t is in replacement string. sed 's/!indo"s/#inux/ ' "orld.txt sed 's/locate/find/2' locate.txt sed -n 's/John/Johnny/p' employee.txt sed -n 's/John/Johnny/" output.txt' employee.txt sed 's/$ohn/Johnny/i' employee.txt sed 's/%/ls -l /' files.txt sed 's&/usr/local/bin&/usr/bin&' path.txt sed 's/%.'/()*/' employee.txt +,ncloses "hole line bet"een ( and *

Group using ,- and ,.. +se ,1, ,2 in sed 's/-.[%/]'-0/-.[%/]'-0/-.[%/]'-0.'/-1/-3/ ' replacement string to refer t e group. employee.txt +1et only 1st and 3rd column

Sed commands p d " a !rint pattern space 0elete lines #rite pattern space to file 1ppend line after sed -n '1/2 p' employee.txt sed -n '1/2 d' employee.txt sed -n '1/2 " output.txt' employee.txt sed '2 a ne"-line' employee.txt

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Sed Cheat Sheet i c l 3 y 4 r 7 $nsert line before 2 ange line !rint idden c aracters !rint line numbers 2 ange case 5uit sed 6ead from file 2omment inside sed script

www.thegeekstuff.com sed '2 i ne"-line' employee.txt sed '2 c ne"-line' employee.txt sed -n l employee.txt sed 3 employee.txt 4 sed '567s/-n/ /8' sed 'y/abcde/9:;<,/' employee.txt sed '3 =' employee.txt sed '> r lo .txt' employee.txt

Sed hold and pattern space commands n x !rint pattern space, empty pattern space, and read next line. S"ap pattern space "it old space

2opy pattern space to old space 8 g G 1ppend pattern space to old space 2opy old space to pattern space 1ppend old space to pattern space

Loops and multi-line sed commands b label t label :label : ! 0 Branc to a label -for looping. Branc to a label only on successful substitution -for looping. 9abel for t e b and t commands -for looping. 1ppend next line to pattern space !rint 1st line in multi-line 0elete 1st line in multi-line

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