unix - sed edit file in-place - Stack Overflow 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
unix - What does sed -i option do? - Stack Overflow 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 as its failing with the foll
What is the purpose of -e in sed command? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange 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 probably not the reason that you often see -e used The reason for that is that -e makes it possible to use more than one script with the same invocation of sed
Understanding sed expression s ^\. \ g - Stack Overflow First, understanding the sed expression at hand s pattern replacement flags is the a sed command, described in detail in man sed In this case, pattern is a regular expression; replacement is what that pattern gets replaced with when where found; and flags describe details about how that replacement should be done
sed - Change multiple files - Stack Overflow 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
linux - sed with special characters - Stack Overflow 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