https://scripter.co/categories/search/Recent content in search on A Scripter's Notesen-uskaushal.modi@gmail.com (Kaushal Modi)kaushal.modi@gmail.com (Kaushal Modi)Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:24:58 -0400Hugo -- gohugo.iohttps://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.htmlhttps://scripter.co/search-replace-groups-using-sed/<p>This is the most common way of my sed usage:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nb">echo</span> Good morning <span class="p">|</span> sed <span class="s1">&#39;s/\(.*\s\+\).*/\1evening/g&#39;</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Here are brief notes on that ..</p> <p>The above script changes <code>Good morning</code> to <code>Good evening</code>. Note that the following characters needed the escape character <code>\</code>:</p> <ul> <li>Brackets to create regex groups: <code>\(</code> <code>\)</code></li> <li>Plus sign to match one or more times: <code>\+</code></li> <li>Note that the <code>.</code> and <code>*</code> characters don&rsquo;t need escaping.</li> </ul>sedregexescapesearchreplacehttps://scripter.co/search-replace-groups-using-sed/Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:16:42 -0400