It is possible to use the shebang line #!/usr/bin/sed -f - to write a sed script as a callable script. EDIT: Actually that seems to depend on the implementation of sed. GNU sed does not appear …

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...

From Sed man page: Sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). While in some ways similar …

If you are using GNU sed, try: sed -e '0,/claudio/ s/claudio/claudia/' nomi sed does not start checking for the regex that ends a range until after the line that starts that range. From man …

For this sort of task, I normally use a small bash script with sed to re-write the file. How do I get sed to replace just the first occurrence of a string in a file rather than replacing every …

How do I use variables in a sed command? Ask Question Asked 14 years, 1 month ago Modified 4 years, 11 months ago

The inclusion of those characters, in a fashion similar to that of GNU sed, will often result in issues with portability and functionality of scripts utilizing sed.

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'm building a bash script for my virtual machine and I would like to know how to replace a specific line in this document: [base] ## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin #

The sed utility works by sequentially reading a file, line by line, into memory. It then performs all actions specified for the line and places the line back in memory to dump to the terminal with …