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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 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...
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.
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...
I have this line inside a file: ULNET-PA,client_sgcib,broker_keplersecurities ,KEPLER I want to get rid of the carriage return character, ^M. I've tried: sed 's/^M//g' However, this removes ^M and
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...
211 You could try using something like: sed -n 's/$/:80/' ips.txt > new-ips.txt Provided that your file format is just as you have described in your question. The s/// substitution command matches (finds) the end of e...
How to use variables in a command in sed? Asked 12 years, 1 month ago Modified 2 years, 4 months ago Viewed 201k times
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 r...
I'm trying to replace all references of a package named boots in a configuration file. The line format is add fast (package OR pkg) boots-(any-other-text), e.g.: add fast package boots-2.3 add fast...
