Sed - command
 

Hello all,

I'm glad to be part of this community. I'm totally new to Linux, starting with Linux+ and lets see, but I'm not new in IT, infact over 8 years of Network engineering experience.

if anyone could be so kind and explain the following command, i know what it does, but i don't get 's/ and /g part.

sed 's/bob/Bobs/g' letter > anotherletter

thanks

the "s" tells Sed to execute the substitute command

bob is the original string

Bobs is the replacement string

the "g" is global flag which it will replace all and any bob to Bobs

Looks like the change is happening to a file called letter. However the changed output is getting sent to a new file called anotherletter.

This sed tutorial is considered by many the best sed resource out there:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Ya, I was just going to followup with a URL for learning SED. I'm sure there are more out there.

http://www.theunixschool.com/2012/06...e-line-or.html

Thank you guys, really helped.

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