Let us consider a file with the following contents:
$ cat file RE01:EMP1:25:2500 RE02:EMP2:26:2650 RE03:EMP3:24:3500 RE04:EMP4:27:2900
1. To replace the first two(2) characters of a string or a line with say "XX":
$ sed 's/^../XX/' file XX01:EMP1:25:2500 XX02:EMP2:26:2650 XX03:EMP3:24:3500 XX04:EMP4:27:2900The "^" symbol indicates from the beginning. The two dots indicate 2 characters.
The same thing can also be achieved without using the carrot(^) symbol as shown below. This also works because by default sed starts any operation from the beginning.
sed 's/../XX/' file2. In the same lines, to remove or delete the first two characters of a string or a line.
$ sed 's/^..//' file 01:EMP1:25:2500 02:EMP2:26:2650 03:EMP3:24:3500 04:EMP4:27:2900Here the string to be substituted is empty, and hence gets deleted.
3. Similarly, to remove/delete the last two characters in the string:
$ sed 's/..$//' file RE01:EMP1:25:25 RE02:EMP2:26:26 RE03:EMP3:24:35 RE04:EMP4:27:294. To add a string to the end of a line:
$ sed 's/$/.Rs/' file RE01:EMP1:25:2500.Rs RE02:EMP2:26:2650.Rs RE03:EMP3:24:3500.Rs RE04:EMP4:27:2900.RsHere the string ".Rs" is being added to the end of the line.
5. To add empty spaces to the beginning of every line in a file:
$ sed 's/^/ /' file RE01:EMP1:25:Rs.2500 RE02:EMP2:26:Rs.2650 RE03:EMP3:24:Rs.3500 RE04:EMP4:27:Rs.2900To make any of the sed command change permanent to the file OR in other words, to save or update the changes in the same file, use the option "-i"
$ sed -i 's/^/ /' file $ cat file RE01:EMP1:25:Rs.2500 RE02:EMP2:26:Rs.2650 RE03:EMP3:24:Rs.3500 RE04:EMP4:27:Rs.29006. To remove empty spaces from the beginning of a line:
$ sed 's/^ *//' file RE01:EMP1:25:2500 RE02:EMP2:26:2650 RE03:EMP3:24:3500 RE04:EMP4:27:2900"^ *"(space followed by a *) indicates a sequence of spaces in the beginning.
7. To remove empty spaces from beginning and end of string.
$ sed 's/^ *//; s/ *$//' file RE01:EMP1:25:2500 RE02:EMP2:26:2650 RE03:EMP3:24:3500 RE04:EMP4:27:2900This example also shows to use multiple sed command substitutions as part of the same command.
The same command can also be written as :
sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//' file
8. To add a character before and after a string. Or in other words, to encapsulate the string with something:
$ sed 's/.*/"&"/' file "RE01:EMP1:25:Rs.2500" "RE02:EMP2:26:Rs.2650" "RE03:EMP3:24:Rs.3500" "RE04:EMP4:27:Rs.2900"".*" matches the entire line. '&' denotes the pattern matched. The substitution pattern "&" indicates to put a double-quote at the beginning and end of the string.
9. To remove the first and last character of a string:
$ sed 's/^.//;s/.$//' file RE01:EMP1:25:2500 RE02:EMP2:26:2650 RE03:EMP3:24:3500 RE04:EMP4:27:290010. To remove everything till the first digit comes :
$ sed 's/^[^0-9]*//' file 01:EMP1:25:2500 02:EMP2:26:2650 03:EMP3:24:3500 04:EMP4:27:2900Similarly, to remove everything till the first alphabet comes:
sed 's/^[^a-zA-Z]*//' file11. To remove a numerical word from the end of the string:
$ sed 's/[0-9]*$//' file RE01:EMP1:25: RE02:EMP2:26: RE03:EMP3:24: RE04:EMP4:27:12. To get the last column of a file with a delimiter. The delimiter in this case is ":".
$ sed 's/.*://' file 2500 2650 3500 2900For a moment, one can think the output of the above command to be the same contents without the first column and the delim. sed is greedy. When we tell, '.*:' it goes to the last column and consumes everything. And hence, we only the get the content after the last colon.
13. To convert the entire line into lower case:
$ sed 's/.*/\L&/' file re01:emp1:25:rs.2500 re02:emp2:26:rs.2650 re03:emp3:24:rs.3500 re04:emp4:27:rs.2900\L is the sed switch to convert to lower case. The operand following the \L gets converted. Since &(the pattern matched, which is the entire line in this case) is following \L, the entire line gets converted to lower case.
14. To convert the entire line or a string to uppercase :
$ sed 's/.*/\U&/' file RE01:EMP1:25:RS.2500 RE02:EMP2:26:RS.2650 RE03:EMP3:24:RS.3500 RE04:EMP4:27:RS.2900Same as above, \U instead of \L.
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