Over the years, the primary way that I’ve used sed is to change text on the fly. There are many occassions in which I want to change one string to another the first or every time that it appears in a ...

The filter sed can process text from standard input and write its results to standard output. The input can be redirected from a file, and the output also can be redirected to a file using your ...

The “l” at the beginning identifies /usr/bin/awk as a symbolic link. NOTE: Without the commas, the result would be “onetwothree”. Note that gawk allows you to ...

It is. I've converted a few machines here in just the last few months, even one where the HD was so shot full of holes only the recovery partition made it onto the replacement SSD and I wound up ...

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required for ...