Re: sed "Hello, world!" program?

On 2014-02-24 00:41, [email protected] wrote:
> s/.*/Hello, world!/
> q
> 
> Testing the suggested command line syntax on win7 and win8
> environment using cmd.exe leads to an ..."unterminated 's' command"
> caused by a space at RRE and missing doublequotes. Based on the
> suggested syntax this is the one working for me: sed "s/.*/Hello,
> world!/;q"
> 
> Or without quoting (removing spaces): sed s/.*/Hello,World!/;q

Are you trying to put them on the command-line, or are you putting
those two lines in a file and then invoking sed on it (the method
discussed in this sub-thread)?

  c:\temp> copy con hello.sed
  s/.*/Hello, world!/
  q
  ^Z

  c:\temp> sed -f hello.sed < somefile_with_at_least_one_line.txt
  Hello, world!

  c:\temp>

-tkc