cli-sedHow do I download and use the CLI version of Sed?
- Download the source code for the CLI version of Sed from GNU ftp.
- Unpack the source code using your favorite unzip program.
- Navigate into the source code directory and run
./configure
to configure the program for your system. - Run
make
to build the program. - Run
make install
to install the program. - Run
sed --help
to view the available options for using Sed. - To use Sed, you can run a command such as
sed 's/foo/bar/g' foo.txt
which will replace all instances offoo
withbar
in the filefoo.txt
.
Example code block:
$ sed 's/foo/bar/g' foo.txt
Output of example code:
bar
Code explanation
sed
: The Sed command.s/foo/bar/g
: The substitution command which replaces all instances offoo
withbar
.foo.txt
: The file to apply the substitution to.
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