Author: brd (doc,ports committer) Date: Tue May 23 22:11:45 2017 New Revision: 318759 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318759
Log: MFC r316030, r317378: Add some useful examples to the sed man page. Reviewed by: wblock, bcr Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9958 Modified: stable/11/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 Directory Properties: stable/11/ (props changed) Modified: stable/11/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 ============================================================================== --- stable/11/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 Tue May 23 20:51:48 2017 (r318758) +++ stable/11/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 Tue May 23 22:11:45 2017 (r318759) @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)sed.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 10, 2016 +.Dd March 27, 2017 .Dt SED 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -586,6 +586,36 @@ as described in .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +Replace +.Ql bar +with +.Ql baz +when piped from another command: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +echo "An alternate word, like bar, is sometimes used in examples." | sed 's/bar/baz/' +.Ed +.Pp +Using backlashes can sometimes be hard to read and follow: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +echo "/home/example" | sed 's/\\/home\\/example/\\/usr\\/local\\/example/' +.Ed +.Pp +Using a different separator can be handy when working with paths: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +echo "/home/example" | sed 's#/home/example#/usr/local/example#' +.Ed +.Pp +Replace all occurances of +.Ql foo +with +.Ql bar +in the file +.Pa test.txt , +without creating a backup of the file: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' test.txt +.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr awk 1 , .Xr ed 1 , _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
