Command and Option Index

This is an alphabetical list of all sed commands and command-line options.

• # (comments): Common Commands
• --binary: Invoking sed
• --expression: Invoking sed
• --file: Invoking sed
• --follow-symlinks: Invoking sed
• --help: Invoking sed
• --in-place: Invoking sed
• --line-length: Invoking sed
• --posix: Invoking sed
• --quiet: Invoking sed
• --regexp-extended: Invoking sed
• --separate: Invoking sed
• --silent: Invoking sed
• --unbuffered: Invoking sed
• --version: Invoking sed
• -b: Invoking sed
• -e: Invoking sed
• -f: Invoking sed
• -i: Invoking sed
• -l: Invoking sed
• -n: Invoking sed
• -n, forcing from within a script: Common Commands
• -r: Invoking sed
• -s: Invoking sed
• -u: Invoking sed
• : (label) command: Programming Commands
• = (print line number) command: Other Commands
• a (append text lines) command: Other Commands
• b (branch) command: Programming Commands
• c (change to text lines) command: Other Commands
• D (delete first line) command: Other Commands
• d (delete) command: Common Commands
• e (evaluate) command: Extended Commands
• F (File name) command: Extended Commands
• G (appending Get) command: Other Commands
• g (get) command: Other Commands
• H (append Hold) command: Other Commands
• h (hold) command: Other Commands
• i (insert text lines) command: Other Commands
• L (fLow paragraphs) command: Extended Commands
• l (list unambiguously) command: Other Commands
• N (append Next line) command: Other Commands
• n (next-line) command: Common Commands
• P (print first line) command: Other Commands
• p (print) command: Common Commands
• q (quit) command: Common Commands
• Q (silent Quit) command: Extended Commands
• r (read file) command: Other Commands
• R (read line) command: Extended Commands
• s command, option flags: The "s" Command
• T (test and branch if failed) command: Extended Commands
• t (test and branch if successful) command: Programming Commands
• v (version) command: Extended Commands
• w (write file) command: Other Commands
• W (write first line) command: Extended Commands
• x (eXchange) command: Other Commands
• y (transliterate) command: Other Commands
• z (Zap) command: Extended Commands
• {} command grouping: Common Commands