Timeline for Make multiple edits with a single call to sed
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| Feb 16, 2022 at 7:39 | comment | added | zinking |
and again for mac users sed -i '' -e
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 1:53 | comment | added | Wildcard |
Note that the sequence matters. In the example command given above, all instances of the letter a are turned into b, and then all instances of b are turned into d. You could do the same thing with sed -i -e 's/a\|b/d/g' file—turn all instances of either a or b into d.
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| Mar 9, 2016 at 13:46 | vote | accept | rclark | ||
| Mar 9, 2016 at 13:36 | history | answered | EightBitTony | CC BY-SA 3.0 |