sed Address and address range Lines matching regular expression pattern
Example
$ cat ip.txt
address
range
substitution
pattern
sample
Add Sub Mul Div
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Lines matching a pattern
$ sed '/add/d' ip.txt range substitution pattern sample Add Sub Mul Div $ sed -n '/t/p' ip.txt substitution pattern $ sed -n '/[A-Z]/ s| |/|gp' ip.txt Add/Sub/Mul/Div -
Range of patterns
$ sed -n '/add/,/sub/p' ip.txt address range substitution $ sed -n '/a/,/e/p' ip.txt address range pattern sample
Note
- In the second example, it matched two ranges - lines
1,2and lines4,5 - See Using different delimiters on how to use other characters instead of
/for specifying the pattern
GNU sed
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Case-insensitive match
$ sed -n '/add/Ip' ip.txt address Add Sub Mul Div $ sed -n '/add/I,/sub/p' ip.txt address range substitution Add Sub Mul Div
