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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Looking for a short way to summarise many sed commands Post 302531411 by Shell_Life on Thursday 16th of June 2011 05:07:19 PM
Old 06-16-2011
Basically you have three options:

1) Use the semi-colon separator:
Code:
sed 'command1;command2;...;commandn' input_file

2) Use the "-e" option:
Code:
sed -e 'command1' -e 'command2' ... -e 'commandn' input_file

3) Use the file command option:
Code:
sed -f Sed_File input_file

Where "Sed_File" will look like this:
Code:
command1
command2
...
commandn

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       shtool install [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-d|--mkdir] [-c|--copy] [-C|--compare-copy] [-s|--strip] [-m|--mode mode] [-o|--owner owner]
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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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	   Display some processing information.

       -t, --trace
	   Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.

       -d, --mkdir
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       -o, --owner owner
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	   this step and leave the operating system default which is usually based on the executing uid or the parent setuid directory.

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