sed Cheatsheet | Edit text in a scriptable manner

sed: Edit text in a scriptable manner.

Replace all apple (basic regex) occurrences with mango (basic regex) in all input lines and print the result to stdout:

command | sed 's/apple/mango/g'

Execute a specific script [f]ile and print the result to stdout:

command | sed -f path/to/script_file.sed

Replace all apple (extended regex) occurrences with APPLE (extended regex) in all input lines and print the result to stdout:

command | sed -E 's/(apple)/\U\1/g'

Print just a first line to stdout:

command | sed -n '1p'

Replace all apple (basic regex) occurrences with mango (basic regex) in a file and save a backup of the original to file.bak:

sed -i bak 's/apple/mango/g' path/to/file

See also: awk , ed .

More information about sed: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/sed.1.html .

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