sed cheatsheet

In place replacements

In GNU sed: use -i without arg.

sed -i -e 's/foo/bar/' example.md

In OSX, -i '' is required.

sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/' example.md

File regions

Print until a certain line is met

sed '/begin api/q'

Print until a certain line is met, but not that line

sed '/^# begin/,$d'

Print everything after a given line

sed -n '/end api/,$p'