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==Recipes== | ==Recipes== | ||
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<tt>sed 'N;s/\n/ | <tt>sed 'N;s/\n/ /'</tt> replaces every other newline with a space. Replace the space with whatever you want. | ||
Latest revision as of 13:14, 23 August 2020
The stream editor. Sometimes the shitty editor. sed works on lines at a time (mostly). Note that GNU and POSIX sed differ in some significant ways.
Use -i to run sed on a file inline. Never use e.g. cat file | sed > file; the shell redirection is going to open file for writing with truncation, which is probably not what you want. Supply expressions on the command line with -e, and/or files of expressions with -f.
Recipes
Join pairs of lines
sed 'N;s/\n/ /' replaces every other newline with a space. Replace the space with whatever you want.
