Text: sed cookbook

Here is a selection of useful sed commands/scripts. If you are looking more for guidance on using sed try this.

Quick refresher on running sed

sed [-n] -e 'commands' inputfiles
sed [-n] -f scriptfile inputfiles

Use the -e flag to include the commands as part of the command and the -f flag to load the commands from a script file.

The -n flag can also be used to restrict output to only lines specified with the p command or p flag.

Remove empty lines

/^$/d