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

Aug 30, 2013 · I'm debugging a shell script and trying to find out the task performed by the following command: sed -i '1,+999d' /home/org_user/data.txt I need to change this command …

Oct 21, 2010 · 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 to …

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...

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Jan 6, 2011 · @Timo: \1 inserts the contents of the first capture group which is what matches between the first set of parentheses. I don't know whether you're asking in particular about the …

What is the proper way to insert tab in sed? I'm inserting a header line into a stream using sed. I could probably do a replacement of some character afterward to put in tab using regular …

The following command is correctly changing the contents of 2 files. sed -i 's/abc/xyz/g' xaa1 xab1 But what I need to do is to change several such files dynamically and I do not know the file na...

I am using sed in a shell script to edit filesystem path names. Suppose I want to replace /foo/bar with /baz/qux However, sed's s/// command uses the forward slash / as the delimiter. If I do tha...

Mar 9, 2014 · How can I write text to a file using sed? More specifically I would it add null variables to my blank text file that was created using touch. The syntax of sed is very …