Aug 2, 2023 · Syntax is similar to sed, but certainly not exactly the same. Even if you don't have a -i supporting sed, you can easily write a script to do the work for you. Instead of sed -i …

You need to quote \[.*^$/ in the regular expression part of the s command and \&/ in the replacement part, plus newlines.

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 …

Aug 30, 2013 · sed 's/"p"/0/g' file.txt > file.txt Unfortunately because of the nature of redirects the above will simply produce a blank file. Instead a temp file must be created for the output which …

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. – …

In GNU sed, looks like there's no space between -i and its argument, but in BSD sed there is… so BSD -i '' 's/foo/bar/' is equivalent to GNU -i 's/foo/bar/. – paulmelnikow Commented Feb 18, …

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 …

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 …

Oct 19, 2012 · Great works a treat. I guess _ in there means to look for numbers only after the underscore? In this instance I can always expect an underscore so this will work.

Jun 11, 2015 · 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; …