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GNU Sed Cheat Sheet: Commands

Sed is a stream editor that transforms text in an input stream line by line. It has no visual display, so it creates a pattern space to hold the current line and apply transformations. Sed commands include print, delete, read next line, search and replace, and exchange pattern and hold spaces. Addressing lines allows selecting a range to apply commands. Regular expressions can be used for sophisticated search and replace.

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GNU Sed Cheat Sheet: Commands

Sed is a stream editor that transforms text in an input stream line by line. It has no visual display, so it creates a pattern space to hold the current line and apply transformations. Sed commands include print, delete, read next line, search and replace, and exchange pattern and hold spaces. Addressing lines allows selecting a range to apply commands. Regular expressions can be used for sophisticated search and replace.

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GNU sed Cheat Sheet

Sed is a stream editor. It transforms text in an input stream, such as a file or pipe. Sed works
on one line at a time. Because it has no visual display, it creates a pattern space, and once
the pattern space is populated, your transformations are executed.

Commands

sed --options [optional SCRIPT] [INPUT STREAM]

p print h copy pattern to hold space H append to hold

d delete g copy hold space to pattern space G append to pattern

n read next line t branch on successful substitution b branch

s search and replace x exchange pattern and hold space

Options
-n, --quiet Don't automatically print the pattern space
-e, --expression Provide a script to be executed
-f, --file File containing a script
-i, --in-place .bak Make changes in a file directly, but create a backup copy

Address
An address or address range defines the input scope for a command
sed -n '1q;p' Select line 1, and then print delete sed '1 d'

sed -n '1p;$p' Select first and last lines, and print delete sed '1d;$d'

sed '1!p' Select all but the first line, and print delete sed '1!d'

sed '/foo/ p' Select lines containing foo, then print delete sed '/foo/ d'

sed '3,7 p' Starting on line 3 and ending on line 7, print each line
sed '3,/foo/ p' Starting on line 3, ending after the first occurrence of foo, print each line

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GNU sed Cheat Sheet

Find and replace


sed 's/closed/open/g' Replace closed with open

sed '/code/ s/closed/open/g' Replace closed with open on lines containing code

sed '/code/! s/closed/open/g' Replace only on lines NOT containing code

sed "s/$//" Replace newline characters

Putting it all together


sed -n -e '/[Oo]pen/h' \ Copy and delete (effectively cut), and then paste any
-e '/[Oo]pen/d' \ line containing Open or open after the line containing
projects
-e '/projects/ G;p'
sed '/^$/d' Delete any empty line
sed -e :branch \ Create a branch (called branch) replacing lines
-e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;bbranch' \ containing nothing but a newline, then loop back to the
-e '}' beginning of the branch until done

sed 's/^[ \t]*//' Remove leading spaces and tabs from line

Print line numbers (using the = command) of FILE,


sed = FILE | sed 'N ; s/\n/\t/' then read the next line (N), replacing the newline
character with a tab character

Regular expression
. Any single character ^ Start of a line
? Match preceding item zero or one time $ End of a line
* Match preceding item zero or more times \s Space
+ Match preceding item one or more times \t Tab
{2} Match preceding item two times \n Newline
{3,} Match preceding item three or more times
{,4} Match preceding item at most four times
[A,B] Match A or B [1-3] Match all digits 1 to 3

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