Command and Option Index (sed, a stream editor)

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Command and Option Index

This is an alphabetical list of all sed commands and command-line options.

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	Index Entry		Section
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	# (comments):		Common Commands
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	--binary:		Command-Line Options
	--debug:		Command-Line Options
	--expression:		Command-Line Options
	--file:		Command-Line Options
	--follow-symlinks:		Command-Line Options
	--help:		Command-Line Options
	--in-place:		Command-Line Options
	--line-length:		Command-Line Options
	--null-data:		Command-Line Options
	--posix:		Command-Line Options
	--quiet:		Command-Line Options
	--regexp-extended:		Command-Line Options
	--sandbox:		Command-Line Options
	--separate:		Command-Line Options
	--silent:		Command-Line Options
	--unbuffered:		Command-Line Options
	--version:		Command-Line Options
	--zero-terminated:		Command-Line Options
	-b:		Command-Line Options
	-e:		Command-Line Options
	-E:		Command-Line Options
	-f:		Command-Line Options
	-i:		Command-Line Options
	-l:		Command-Line Options
	-n:		Command-Line Options
	-n, forcing from within a script:		Common Commands
	-r:		Command-Line Options
	-s:		Command-Line Options
	-u:		Command-Line Options
	-z:		Command-Line Options
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	: (label) command:		Programming Commands
=
	= (print line number) command:		Other Commands
{
	{} command grouping:		Common Commands
A
	a (append text lines) command:		Other Commands
	alnum character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
	alpha character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
B
	b (branch) command:		Programming Commands
	blank character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
C
	c (change to text lines) command:		Other Commands
	cntrl character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
D
	D (delete first line) command:		Other Commands
	d (delete) command:		Common Commands
	digit character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
E
	e (evaluate) command:		Extended Commands
F
	F (File name) command:		Extended Commands
G
	G (appending Get) command:		Other Commands
	g (get) command:		Other Commands
	graph character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
H
	H (append Hold) command:		Other Commands
	h (hold) command:		Other Commands
I
	i (insert text lines) command:		Other Commands
L
	l (list unambiguously) command:		Other Commands
	lower character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
N
	N (append Next line) command:		Other Commands
	n (next-line) command:		Common Commands
P
	P (print first line) command:		Other Commands
	p (print) command:		Common Commands
	print character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
	punct character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
Q
	q (quit) command:		Common Commands
	Q (silent Quit) command:		Extended Commands
R
	r (read file) command:		Other Commands
	R (read line) command:		Extended Commands
S
	s command, option flags:		The "s" Command
	space character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
T
	T (test and branch if failed) command:		Extended Commands
	t (test and branch if successful) command:		Programming Commands
U
	upper character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
V
	v (version) command:		Extended Commands
W
	w (write file) command:		Other Commands
	W (write first line) command:		Extended Commands
X
	x (eXchange) command:		Other Commands
	xdigit character class:		Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
Y
	y (transliterate) command:		Other Commands
Z
	z (Zap) command:		Extended Commands

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Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Running sed
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 Command-Line Options
  • 2.3 Exit status
• 3 sed scripts
  • 3.1 sed script overview
  • 3.2 sed commands summary
  • 3.3 The s Command
  • 3.4 Often-Used Commands
  • 3.5 Less Frequently-Used Commands
  • 3.6 Commands for sed gurus
  • 3.7 Commands Specific to GNU sed
  • 3.8 Multiple commands syntax
    • 3.8.1 Commands Requiring a newline
• 4 Addresses: selecting lines
  • 4.1 Addresses overview
  • 4.2 Selecting lines by numbers
  • 4.3 selecting lines by text matching
  • 4.4 Range Addresses
• 5 Regular Expressions: selecting text
  • 5.1 Overview of regular expression in sed
  • 5.2 Basic (BRE) and extended (ERE) regular expression
  • 5.3 Overview of basic regular expression syntax
  • 5.4 Overview of extended regular expression syntax
  • 5.5 Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
  • 5.6 regular expression extensions
  • 5.7 Back-references and Subexpressions
  • 5.8 Escape Sequences - specifying special characters
    • 5.8.1 Escaping Precedence
  • 5.9 Multibyte characters and Locale Considerations
    • 5.9.1 Invalid multibyte characters
    • 5.9.2 Upper/Lower case conversion
    • 5.9.3 Multibyte regexp character classes
• 6 Advanced sed: cycles and buffers
  • 6.1 How sed Works
  • 6.2 Hold and Pattern Buffers
  • 6.3 Multiline techniques - using D,G,H,N,P to process multiple lines
  • 6.4 Branching and Flow Control
    • 6.4.1 Branching and Cycles
    • 6.4.2 Branching example: joining lines
• 7 Some Sample Scripts
  • 7.1 Joining lines
  • 7.2 Centering Lines
  • 7.3 Increment a Number
  • 7.4 Rename Files to Lower Case
  • 7.5 Print bash Environment
  • 7.6 Reverse Characters of Lines
  • 7.7 Text search across multiple lines
  • 7.8 Line length adjustment
  • 7.9 Reverse Lines of Files
  • 7.10 Numbering Lines
  • 7.11 Numbering Non-blank Lines
  • 7.12 Counting Characters
  • 7.13 Counting Words
  • 7.14 Counting Lines
  • 7.15 Printing the First Lines
  • 7.16 Printing the Last Lines
  • 7.17 Make Duplicate Lines Unique
  • 7.18 Print Duplicated Lines of Input
  • 7.19 Remove All Duplicated Lines
  • 7.20 Squeezing Blank Lines
• 8 GNU sed’s Limitations and Non-limitations
• 9 Other Resources for Learning About sed
• 10 Reporting Bugs
• Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License
• Concept Index
• Command and Option Index

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