sed Command

sed Command

Removing Characters using sed command

 REMOVING $ (DOLLAR) FROM A FILE USING SED

sed -e 's/[$]//g' FE.txt  > Final.txt

Where FE.txt is the source file and Final.txt will be the file after removing dollar

REMOVING DOUBLE QUOTES “

sed -e 's/"//g' FE.txt > Final.txt

Where FE.txt is the source file and Final.txt will be the file after removing quotes

REMOVING SINGLE QUOTES   ‘

sed -e "s/'//g" FE.txt > Final.txt

Where FE.txt is the source file and Final.txt will be the file after removing quotes

REMOVING COLON :

sed -e 's/://g' FE.txt > Final.txt

Where FE.txt is the source file and Final.txt will be the file after removing colon

REMOVING SEMI-COLON;

sed -e 's/;//g' FE.txt > Final.txt

Where FE.txt is the source file and Final.txt will be the file after removing semi colon

REMOVING SPACES

sed -e 's/ //g' FE.txt > Final.txt

Where FE.txt is the source file and Final.txt will be the file after removing spaces

TO GET THE LINES BETWEEN STRINGS

sed -n '/START/,/END/p' test.txt > test1.txt

This will get the lines between START and END and including these.

TO DELETE THE LINES WHICH CONTAINS A PARTICULAR STRING

sed '/04546986/d' filename1.txt > filename2.txt

This will delete the line containing 04546986 in file filename1.txt and prints it to filename2.txt

TO REPLACE A STRING WITH ANOTHER STRING

sed -e 's/YYY/XYZ/g' filename1.txt > filename2.txt

This will replace YYY with XYZ in file filename1.txt and prints it to filename2.txt

To replace \n (not new Line)

sed -e 's/\\n//g' siva.txt > filename2.txt

Put escape character to remove character \n

Replace if in the same line.

sed 's/good/bad/2' abbb.txt > out.txt

Replace if different Line:

1. First replace all new lines with ';'
2. Then apply sed.
3. Then Replace ';' with new lines.

tr '\n' ';' < inp.txt > temp1.txt

sed 's/good/bad/5' temp1.txt > temp2.txt
tr ';' '/n' < temp2.txt > out.txt