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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'
  • Execute a specific script [f]ile and print the result to stdout:
    {{command}} | sed -f {{path/to/script.sed}}
  • Replace all apple (extended regex) occurrences with APPLE (extended regex) in all input lines and print the result to stdout:
    {{command}} | sed -E 's/(apple)/\U\1/g'
  • Print just a first line to stdout:
    {{command}} | sed -n '1p'
  • Replace all apple (basic regex) occurrences with mango (basic regex) in a specific file and overwrite the original file in place:
    sed -i 's/apple/mango/g' {{path/to/file}}

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