Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Multiple sed expression in one line

To do multiple sed expression in one line, you can use -e a few times according to your need. For example:

To subtitute 'little' with 'big' and 'lamb' with 'cow' in "Mary had a little lamb" we can use:
$ echo 'Mary had a little lamb' | sed -e 's/little/big/' -e 's/lamb/cow/'
Mary had a big cow
where -e is for expression flag, 's/little/big/' is the first expression and 's/lamb/cow/' is the second expression

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011

    between sed and awk which one is easier to use?

    Need your advise. Tq

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  2. blackorgaOctober 04, 2011

    Hi Anonymous,

    In my opinion, sed is easier to understand because it follows some command that being used in vi, like the 's' for subtitute

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