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Replace whole line containing a string using Sed

I have a text file which has a particular line something like sometext sometext sometext TEXT_TO_BE_REPLACED sometext sometext sometext I need to replace ...

May 8, 2022
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sed edit file in place

I am trying to find out if it is possible to edit a file in a single sed command without manually streaming the ...

May 8, 2022
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How to remove double-quotes in jq output for parsing json files in bash?

I’m using jq to parse a JSON file as shown here. However, the results for string values contain the “double-quotes” as expected, as ...

May 6, 2022
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Delete empty lines using sed

I am trying to delete empty lines using sed: sed '/^$/d' but I have no luck with it. For example, I have these ...

May 5, 2022
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Non greedy (reluctant) regex matching in sed?

I’m trying to use sed to clean up lines of URLs to extract just the domain. So from: http://www.suepearson.co.uk/product/174/71/3816/ I want: http://www.suepearson.co.uk/ (either ...

May 5, 2022
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What is the difference between sed and awk? [closed]

Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so ...

May 1, 2022
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Find and replace in file and overwrite file doesn’t work, it empties the file

I would like to run a find and replace on an HTML file through the command line. My command looks something like this: ...

April 29, 2022
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How can I remove the first line of a text file using bash/sed script?

I need to repeatedly remove the first line from a huge text file using a bash script. Right now I am using sed ...

April 27, 2022
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Bash tool to get nth line from a file

Is there a “canonical” way of doing that? I’ve been using head -n | tail -1 which does the trick, but I’ve been ...

April 22, 2022
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How can I do a recursive find/replace of a string with awk or sed?

How do I find and replace every occurrence of: subdomainA.example.com with subdomainB.example.com in every text file under the /home/www/ directory tree recursively? 36 ...

April 20, 2022
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