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Linux Shell Scripting Essentials
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Linux Shell Scripting Essentials

by Sinny Kumari
November 2015
Beginner
282 pages
5h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Editing output using sed

The sed command is a non-interactive stream editor that allows you to modify the content of the standard input or file. It performs an operation on each line in a pipeline. The syntax will be:

sed [OPTIONS]... {script} [input-file …]

By default, the output is displayed on stdout, but can be redirected to a file if specified.

The input-file are the files on which sed needs to be run. If no files are specified, it reads from stdin.

The script can be a command or a file with multiple commands to pass to sed, and OPTIONS to sed are described in the following table:

Option

Description

-n

This suppresses automatic printing of pattern space

-e script

This allows multiple scripts to be executed

-r

This uses the extended regex ...

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