Sed stands for Stream EDitor. It is one of the basic tools in the POSIX environment - it processes one or more files according to an editing script and writes the results to standard output. Created in Bell Labs, it has been around since mid-70s.
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Removing ASCII “frame” around text
I sometimes save nice fortune outputs to my Evernote. The data looks like this:
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Using sed regular expression to extract domain name from file
I'm learning regex with sed to extract the last field from file named "test". The method I'm trying gives desired output.
Please suggest if this method Im trying is ...
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Remove line numbers from shell history
I want to parse Linux history output and the commands parts only (without numbers):
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Changing filename and copying in bash
I wrote a script which changes names of last downloaded songs and copy them to music directory. Can it be written better?
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Parsing logs in sed efficiently
I have an application which log file has most lines start with a time/date, followed by a debugging level and the actual log message. Often I want to watch the output live and colors make it a lot ...
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Changing cuts to sed for parsing dates from apache log (common log file)
Would switching my cuts below to SED improve performance? I am trying to get a per date count of requests for the last two weeks from a server log. The script runs, but slowly (comes in around 14 ...
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Using sed to implement the cp command
I have a script for school that mimics the cp command. Part of the assignment is to modify the script so that the while loop (that assigns ...
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Find-grep-sed for project-wide search & replace
I always forget how to do this efficiently with Vim's arglist. Drawing inspiration from a post over at Stack Overflow, I wrote a Bash function to perform a project-wide search & replace.
It does ...
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Bash script to convert NIST vectors to debug scripts
TL;DR: The Bash script (below) is converting a published, somewhat-structured text file into a format usable by my testing infrastructure. It's slow, I think it's ugly -- although it is fully ...
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Extracting performance statistics from FTP session transcript
I've borrowed and written the following code to output the disconnect time. All works well but I'm curious as to how I could tighten/ shorten the code. If anyone feels like having some fun then I'd ...
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Bash Shell Script uses Sed to create and insert multiple lines after a particular line in an existing file
This code seems to work, but I'd like someone with shell-fu to review it.
Is the temp file a good idea? How would I do without?
Is sed the right tool?
Any other general advice for improving my ...
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Adding a zero to file names
I've recently discovered the power of sed; regular expressions seem like they'll take a lifetime to master. This tiny script uses both to add a zero before the single digit in file names.
Can this be ...
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