HOW TO USE SED EDITOR

INTRODUCTION

SED : stands for stream editor used for Filtering and Transforming on input stream from Files or pipelines

HOW TO INSTALL SED :

• Debian

sudo apt-get install -y sed 

• RedHat | CentOS

yum install sed -y 

HOW TO USE SED WITH EXAMPLES

• You can use it to print lines from text file

sed  '3,1p' head.txt 

HINT :

Here will print the content of text file with the highlighted line number 3 only

You can also print range of lines for example from line 1 to 3

sed  '1,3p' head.txt

• You Can also print selected lines only without all lines exist on text file by using argument -n

sed  -n '1,3p' head.txt 

• You can also print lines with specific streams or start with specific stream

sed -n '/unixcop/p' head.txt 

sed -n '/Mostafa/p' head.txt 

sed -n '/^Bye/p' head.txt

• You Can Use it to replace some stream with another stream

sed 's/Mostafa/UNIXCOP/' head.txt 

• You can also append some streams to the lines

sed 's/unixcop/ &  Mostafa and Omar and Ahmed/' head.txt 

• You can use it to delete range of lines or streams

sed '3,4d' head.txt

sed '/^Bye/d' head.txt 

• You can use sed to read sed command from text file with .sed extension

HINT :

You must write the sed command with the following form shown in command.sed file

I used to delete the line that starts with Bye word

sed -f command.sed head.txt  

CONCLUSION

This article clarify the usages of sed editor with examples .. For more info about sed use the following ” man sed ”