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Contents 1 SED - Stream Editor: Edit files via bash 1.1 Example of replacing text 1.2 Replace all instances of text in a line 1.3 Replace a Forward Slash (/) using sed 1.4 Other information about sed

SED - Stream Editor: Edit files via bash

Example of replacing text

sed -i "s/wordtoreplace/wordtoreplacewith/" /path/to/file/file.txt

# -i = Edit File in place
# s/ = s/regexp/replacement/ (search regexp and replace)

Replace all instances of text in a line

echo "teztz" | sed "s/z/-/"

The above sed will *NOT* replace ALL instances of z with -. The following instead is required:

echo "teztz" | sed "s/z/-/g"
#The /g is required to replace all instances.

Replace a Forward Slash (/) using sed

The following situation: A script outputs the following:

/home/user1
/home/user2
/home/user3

Using Munin_Statistics, I want to be able to graph disk usage. The above string cannot be used to create a file for disk usage. I want to replace all instances of / with -.

du -B 1 --max-depth=1 /home | sed "s/\//-/g"

The trick is to escape the / with a \.

Other information about sed

man sed