I can t figure how to tell sed dot match new line: echo -e "one two three" | sed s/one.*two/one/m I expect to get: one three instead I get original: one two three

I d like to use the search pattern in the output part of a sed command. For instance, given the following sed command: sed /HOSTNAME=/cHOSTNAME=fred /etc/sysconfig/network I d like to replace the ...

I have text files generated by one of my tools with structure shown below. 1 line text (space) multiple lines text (space) multiple lines text nr 2 ----------------------------------------------------...

I have a directory that looks like this: pages/ folder1/ folder1.filename1.txt folder1.filename2.txt folder2/ folder2.filename4.txt folder2.filename5.txt ...

I m attempting to write a bash script to parse out the following log file and give me a list of CURRENT players in the room (so ignoring players that left, but including players that may have rejoined)...

I see lots of examples and man pages on how to do things like search-and-replace using sed, awk, or gawk. But in my case, I have a regular expression that I want to run against a text file to extract ...

I d like to insert <?php include_once( google_analytics.php ); ?> before the closing body tag of about 100 php files. Unfortunately the person who made the site didn t make a header or ...

I am issuing a sed replace on a line, trying to extract a particular floating-point value, but all that appears to be matched is the right-side of the decimal Text Line: 63.544: [GC 63.544: [DefNew: ...