Editing Streams with sed
Learn how to edit streams and achieve the find and replace functionality using the sed command.
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The sed
command
If we need to modify text in a pipeline or a file, sed
is our best friend. Its name is short for “stream editor,” and it’s convenient. While we can do many things with sed
, the most common use is to replace some text with other text, similar to how we use the find and replace feature in our text editor.
Like other tools, sed
can read its input from a file or standard input. Let’s try it out. Print out Hello World
and use sed
to replace Hello
...