Replace single spaces and hyphens between spaces in file names - Test echo of filename
for file in *; do echo mv "$file" "$(echo $file | sed 's/ - /_/g ; s/ /-/g')" ; done
Replace single spaces and hyphens between spaces in file names - Remove first echo to commit changes.
for file in *; do mv "$file" "$(echo $file | sed 's/ - /_/g ; s/ /-/g')" ; done
It substitutes the old string with the new one mentioned.
sed "s/unix/linux/" geek
Duplicates the replaced line with /p flag.
sed "s/unix/linux/p" geek
Inserts one blank line after every line.
sed G geek
Inserts a blank line after each line that matches the string learn
sed '/learn/G' geek
insert one blank line after each line
$ sed G a.txt
delete blank lines and insert blank line after each line
$ sed '/^$/d;G' a .txt
number each line of a file . "=" is used to number each line. "\" is used for tab between number and sentence
$ sed =a.txt \sed 'N: s /
number each line of file, only if line is not blank
sed ' /./=' a.txt | sed '/. / N: s/\N / /'
delete a particular line
sed 'sd' a.txt
delete the last line
sed '$d' a.txt
delete the last line
sed '$d' a.txt
delete line line from 3 to 5 lines
sed '3,5d' a.txt
delete the pattern matching line
sed '/life/d' a.txt
delete lines starting from nth line and every 2nd line from there
sed 'n~2d' file name
view a file from 2 to 5 line range
sed -n '2,5p, a.txt
print nth file of the file
sed -n '4' p a.txt
print the line that matches the pattern
sed -n /every/ p a.txt
change the first occurance of the pattern
sed 's/life/leaves/' a.txt
replace the nth occurance of a pattern of line
sed 's/to/two/2' a.txt
replacing all the occurance of pattern of line
sed 's/life/learn/g' a.txt
replace a pattern with other except the nth line
sed -i '5! s /life/love /' a.txt
this command is used to replace the text in a file
$ sed /unix/linux/' geekfile.txt
replacing all the occurances of the pattern in a line
$ sed 's/unix/linux/g' geekfile.txt
replacing the string in a specific line
$ sed '3 s/unix/linux/' geekfile.txt
the /p orint flag prints the repalced line twice on the terminal.
$ sed 's/unix/linux/p' geekfile.txt
printing only the replaced lines
$ sed -n 's/unix/linux/p' geekfile.txt
printing only the replaced lines
$ sed -n 's/unix/linux/p' geekfile.txt
delete a particular line
$ sed 'nd' filename.txt
delete the last line
$ sed '$d' filename.txt
delete pattern matching line
$ sed '/pattern/d' filename.txt
it executes more than 2 or 3 sed commannds at a time
$ sed 'are ; hello' file1.txt
-s replaces red word to blue in the given file
$ sed -e 's/red/blue;' colors.txt
the above command will limit the sed command to operate on the 3rd line
$ sed '3s/red/blue' colors.txt
the above command will insert colors before are bright
echo "are bright" |sed 'i\colors'
the above command will append the text
echo "are bright" | sed 'a\colors'
the above command will append the text
echo "are bright" | sed 'a\colors'
the 2nd will be moified to manago is in yellow
sed '2c/mango is in yellow./ colors.txt
this command transforms ethe letters with abc to def
sed 'y/abc/def/' colors.txt
gives the line numbers to the line in the color.txt fike
sed "=" colors.txt
gives the line number in which mango word is there
sed -n '/mango=/' colors.txt
it modifies the apple is red with line updated in colors.txt
sed '/apple is/c line updated.' colors.txt