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Unix Sed Tutorial: How To Execute Multiple Sed

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by Sasikala on October 16, 2009
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Question: Is it possible for me to combine multiple sed commands? Can I combine two sed commands and
execute it as single sed command?
Answer: In our previous articles we learned sed with single commands printing, deletion, substitute and file
write.
In this article let us review how to combine multiple sed commands using option -e as shown below.
Syntax:
#sed -e 'command' -e 'command' filename
Note: -e option is optional for sed with single command. sed will execute the each set of command while
processing input from the pattern buffer.
Let us first create thegeekstuff.txt file that will be used in all the examples mentioned below.
# cat thegeekstuff.txt
1. Linux - Sysadmin, Scripting etc.
2. Databases - Oracle, mySQL etc.
3. Hardware
4. Security (Firewall, Network, Online Security etc)
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5. Storage
6. Cool gadgets and websites
7. Productivity (Too many technologies to explore, not much time available)
8. Website Design
9. Software Development
10.Windows- Sysadmin, reboot etc.
1.Delete 4th and 2nd line from the input

This sed example deletes 4th and 2nd line from the file thegeekstuff.txt. Using -e option, you can give any
number of commands with sed.
$ sed -e '4d' -e '2d' thegeekstuff.txt

1. Linux - Sysadmin, Scripting etc.
3. Hardware
5. Storage
8. Website Design
10.Windows- Sysadmin, reboot etc.
2. Print the lines which matches the pattern1 and lines matches pattern2
This sed example prints all lines that matches either the pattern Storage or Software.
$ sed -n -e '/Software/p'
5. Storage
-e '/Storage/p'
thegeekstuff.txt
3. Delete the first,last and all the blank lines from input
This sed example deletes the first line, last line and all the blank lines from input file.
$ sed -e '1d' -e '$d' -e '/^$/d' thegeekstuff.txt
2. Databases - Oracle, mySQL etc.
3. Hardware
4. Security (Firewall, Network, Online Security etc)
5. Storage
8. Website Design
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1 Guy Patterson October 22, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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Theres also potential to use a semi-colon to combine multiple sed arguments.

For example, I use the following to watch httpd access logs:
RED=ècho -en \e[32m'`
YELLOW=ècho -en '\e[93m'`
RESET=ècho -en '\e[00m'
sudo tail -f /mnt/netdata/_shares/logs/httpd/domain.com/$YEAR/$MON/domainaccess-$MON-$YEAR.log |sed -e "s/^.*\]: //g;s/ http://www.domain.*\] \/ \/g;s/ HTTP\/1\.[0-9]
\/\/g;s/ [0-9][0-9][0-9] [0-9]* \/ \/g;s/http:\/\/www.domain.com//g;s/$[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*
$/$RED\1$RESET/g;s/$\[^\"]*\$/$YELLOW\1$RESET/g;s/*169.254.254.254*//g
yay cli! :]
2 fety November 12, 2009 at 3:14 am
Hi, Ramesh
I have been following your tutorial from the first tutorial of SED. It is really help me so much to
understand better about SED.
Again, thanks very much.
3 John Alles January 20, 2010 at 9:18 am
Hi,
I have a file as 12000 lines like this:
a123
a234
a569
..
I would like to change a by x every 50 lines.
I know this command:
sed -e s///
I have to 2400 times.
Do you know easier way for taht?
4 Sasikala January 20, 2010 at 11:16 pm
To change a by x in every 50th line of a file, use the following.
$ sed
:loop
$!N
s/^$\([^\n]*\n$\{49\}\)a$[^\n]*$/\1x\3/
t
$!b loop
filename
5 frankhuang November 17, 2010 at 1:10 am
The command
sed 1~50s/a/x/g filename.txt >out.txt
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also works
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1.Delete 4th and 2nd line from the input

$ sed -e '4d' -e '2d' thegeekstuff.txt

Unix Sed Tutorial: How To Execute Multiple Sed Commands

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