2. tools
  3. sed

    sed

    Important note: sed uses Basic Regular Expressions (BRE), not Extended Regulars Expressions (ERE). In case you want ERE, use -r or --regexp-extended. In most of my exemple, I mainly use BRE. Thus, for groups, you need to use \(...\), for optional presence \?, etc.

    Remove specific char from string

    # only first occurrence
echo "hell" | sed 's/l//'
hel

# all occurrences ('g' option)
echo "hell" | sed 's/l//g'
he

    Replace group matching

    echo -e "import \"toto.proto\";\nunrelated line" | sed "s/\(import \"\)\(.*\.proto\)\(.*\)/\1prefix\/\2\3/"
import "prefix/toto.proto";
unrelated line

    sed -n '/^pattern1/,${p;/^pattern2/q}'

    Remove empty lines

    sed '/^$/d'

    Only print match

    sed -n "s/version=[\"']\(.*\)[\"']/\1/p" setup.py