sed

stream editor for filtering and transforming text

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echo this is a test | sed 's/a/my/'Find and replace the string a with my

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echo this is not a test | sed -e 's/not //' -e 's/test/another test/'Do multiple substitutions

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sed '/test/ !d' myfileDelete all lines that do not contain the string test

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echo test12345 | sed 's/\([a-z]*\).*/\1/'Grab the letters from test and delete the numbers

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dd if=/dev/sda | sed 's/Marry/Sally/g' | dd of=/dev/sdaReplaces ever occurrence of Marry with Sally on the hard drive /dev/sda

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sed '3a Text to append' myfileAppend 'Text to append' after the third line

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cat myfile.txt | sed 5qOutput the first 5 line of myfile.txt

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echo "54321 test" | sed 's/[0-9]*/& &/'Repeat the first occurrence of any numbers

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sed '/test/ d' myfiledelete all lines on myfile that contain the string test

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sed '1,/^$/ d' myfileDelete all lines before first blank line

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echo hi | sed 's/\(h\)\(i\)/\2\1/g'swap the characters h and i

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Find and replace strings in OSXsed -i "" 's/find/replace/g' views.py

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sed '1,3 d' myfileDelete the first 3 lines from myfile.

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sed -i 's/test/NewSTR/g' myfilereplace the string test with NewSTR in myfile

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echo hi | sed 's/i/sometext&&&&&&&/'copy the char i and replace it with sometextiiiiiii

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Replace all strings foo with barsed -i 's/foo/bar/g'Replace all occurrences of the string foo with bar

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zipinfo -T storage | sort -nr -k 7 | sed 15q

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