cli-sedHow can I use the command line to compress and edit files with sed and zip?

The command line can be used to compress and edit files with sed and zip.

Sed is a stream editor used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). Zip is a file format used for file compression and archiving.

To use sed and zip with the command line, the following example can be used:

zip -r myzipfile.zip myfile.txt
sed -i 's/old/new/g' myfile.txt
zip -u myzipfile.zip myfile.txt

This example will compress the file myfile.txt into a zip file called myzipfile.zip, then use sed to replace old with new in myfile.txt, and finally update the myzipfile.zip file with the modified myfile.txt.

The parts of the example code are as follows:

1. zip -r myzipfile.zip myfile.txt: This command creates a zip file called myzipfile.zip containing the file myfile.txt.
2. sed -i 's/old/new/g' myfile.txt: This command uses sed to replace old with new in myfile.txt.
3. zip -u myzipfile.zip myfile.txt: This command updates myzipfile.zip with the modified myfile.txt.

Helpful links

• Sed Documentation
• Zip Documentation

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