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A guide to using Bash pattern matching instead of grep and sed

You've probably written dozens of Bash scripts by now. You may have used grep in a conditional statement or sed to transform small blocks of text inline. What if I told you that's incredibly ...
Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

A company I used to work at had half its backend stack (specifically everything controlling application launching, watchdogs, alerts, status updates and network management) constructed using Bash ...

I loved sed so much that I rebuilt GNU sed in Rust | The fast, parallel 'ripgsed'

TL;DR I loved sed so much that I rebuilt GNU sed 4.9 in Rust. The name is ripgsed The goal is a "fast gsed". It splits input ...
Network World

sed: not just for pipes and one-liners

Over the years, the primary way that I’ve used sed is to change text on the fly. There are many occassions in which I want to change one string to another the first or every time that it appears in a ...
Network World

Using Bash’s regular expressions

Bash has quietly made scripting on Unix systems a lot easier with its own regular expressions. If you're still leaning on grep and sed commands to get your scripts to do what you need from them, maybe ...
Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

Great article. Really enjoyed it. Having just gone through a project with significant amounts of high volume text manipulation in PowerShell, it's amazing to me how simple and effective this is. And, ...