Jun 3, 2015 · In your example sed 's/foo/bar/' and sed -e 's/foo/bar/' are equivalent. In both cases s/foo/bar/ is the script that is executed by sed. The second option is more explicit, but that is …

Learn how to use sed with regex for complex string replacements in Unix systems.

How do I edit a file in a single sed command? Currently, I have to manually stream the edited content into a new file and then rename the new file to the original file name. I tried sed -i, but my

I run this command to find and replace all occurrences of 'apple' with 'orange' in all files in root of my site: find ./ -exec sed -i 's/apple/orange/g' {} \\; But it doesn't go through sub directo...

Jan 6, 2011 · To be precise, in s/foo/bar/, only foo is a regular expression, and the rest is other sed syntax. Basically, bar is just a string, though some things like & and \1 have a special …

The single quotes around the sed body will prevent the shell from substituting any variables, so the $ on the left-hand side is escaped only to prevent its special regular expression meaning.

Oct 21, 2010 · 51 sed is the Stream EDitor. It can do a whole pile of really cool things, but the most common is text replacement. The s,%,$,g part of the command line is the sed command …

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Feb 11, 2013 · sed uses basic regular expressions by default, enabling use of extended regular expressions is implementation dependent, e.g. with BSD sed you use the -E switch, GNU sed …

Sep 22, 2011 · +1 Right after the "delete every line which does match" sed example line, I would also include a "or operate on every line that does not match" with a simple sed example of …