I'm trying to use sed to make several substitutions and insertions of an input string.
However, I recently noticed that the insert command i doesn't terminate on ; like others, and instead prints the rest of the string.
$ sed "s/^foo/bar/; 1i foo foo foo; s/foo$/baz/;"
When running that command on the following input,
foo bar baz
I get the following incorrect output.
foo foo foo; s/foo$/baz/;
bar bar baz
What's the correct way to terminate that command?
You may use multiple -e separated queries in a single command:
sed -e 's/^foo/bar/' -e '1i foo foo foo' -e 's/foo$/baz/' <<< "foo bar baz"
See the online sed demo. Output:
foo foo foo
bar bar baz