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sed

Edit text in a scriptable manner. See also: awk, ed. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html.

• Replace all apple (basic regex) occurrences with mango (basic regex) in all input lines and print the result to stdout:

{{command}} | sed 's/apple/mango/g'

• Replace all apple (extended regex) occurrences with APPLE (extended regex) in all input lines and print the result to stdout:

{{command}} | sed {{[-E|--regexp-extended]}} 's/(apple)/\U\1/g'

• Replace all apple (basic regex) occurrences with mango (basic regex) in a specific file and overwrite the original file in place:

sed {{[-i|--in-place]}} 's/apple/mango/g' {{path/to/file}}

• Execute a specific script file and print the result to stdout:

{{command}} | sed {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/script.sed}}

• Print just the first line to stdout:

{{command}} | sed {{[-n|--quiet]}} '1p'

• [d]elete the first line of a file:

sed {{[-i|--in-place]}} 1d {{path/to/file}}

• [i]nsert a new line at the first line of a file:

sed {{[-i|--in-place]}} '1i\your new line text\' {{path/to/file}}