Sed - UNIX Stream Editor - Cheat Sheet

Great job. I've added it to http://TechCheatSheets.com

Hey, SR. Thanks so much for adding it to your site :)

Nice post.

i've got problem on sed, which is i hv to change the line with colon to comma, and also change some order of the line,but the line is rili long. its like 1:2:3:4:5:6:7. i hv to only left 1:6:7. and also hv to change the order to 1:7:6.
how can i do that and write into script.please gv me some hint.

please help me.the last output is 1,7,6

Stephen, not sure I understand your question...
You can try doing 'sed -e 's/:/,/g' to change colons into commas. It's harder to change the order.
AWK language seems more appropriate, as you can specify split and field seperators, etc.

anyone have hack for cod4 1,7?
please send me on :
serbiaursus@hotmail.com

On the second page, it says that you can specify a label with a text string followed by a colon. Is that really true? It seems like the opposite of specifying a label. Shouldn't it read "... text string following a colon ..." instead?

I'm having to open like 8 pages on your site to get your sed tips.. It'd be much easier for people if you created a master sed jump off point.

I feel the same way about sed as you, modifying streams mid-stream is just freaking awesome.

Check this out:

G=$'\33[H\33[2J'
A=$'\a'

G will reset and clear the screen, A will cause a bell, but only if they are output to the tty.

Using sed I can tail a log file like a php_error.log file and when sed sees a special keyword appear in the output from tail it replaces it with G or A.

tail -f php_error.log | sed -u -e "s/AATPUTCLS/${G}/g"

And in my php file I might add

error_log('AATPUTCLS');

which would send that to the php_error.log and if it is being output via tail then sed resets the screen making it easy to focus in on code segments.

I hope you have some cool stuff on sed.. it's one tough cookie to figure out, but soo worth it. I use it alot in my various functions for my bash_profile.

Hey if any on has these charts on these commmands like

SED, AWK, GREP etc please farward hem on my mail
getnayab@gmail.com
thank you

Nice layout. Asciidoc is nice to maintain the various output formats. It support tables that look descent in text, pdf, html output.

Just noticed in your sed cheat sheet, there is no -V only --version, like --help.

http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html

Your plain text documnet has a very nice layout.
How did you create those nice tables in text? I am very curious to know that.

It's just ascii art.

         
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.------.      | This |
| Just +------+.-----'
`------+ Like  |
       `-------'

Well, I am considered a quite good hacker. But I frankly consider having to learn a bunch of different languages to do my work with little or no commonality a waste of brainpower. There is a sweet spot between a tool/process in a pipeline on series of commands and another language. I don't think our profession will advance until there is one core language and everything else expressible in that. But maybe I got warped playing with a Symbolics machine in my formative years. :)

That you even have to dig out a cheat sheet for X may be a sign that X just isn't good enough and perhaps shouldn't live as a separate thing.