Simple uses for Sed

Picking up where we left off on the Awk article

We have the following output from a command.

sed@intro > awk ' { print $2" "$1 } ' test.txt
Phone User
555-555-5553 tom
555-555-5552 larry
555-555-5511 daryl

Problem here is the column titles for Phone and User are not aligned with the output information.

Enter Sed

sed@intro > awk ' { print $2" "$1 } ' test.txt | sed 's/Phone User/Phone........User/g'
Phone.............User
555-555-5553 tom
555-555-5552 larry
555-555-5511 daryl


Sed the stream editor is being used to format the output from awk using a search and replace function globally. sed 's/Pattern to match/ What to replace it with/ g'