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This is our second post on SED, which is a Stream EDitor. Please find our Previous post on SED. You can find our other posts on RegExp basics and extended. Line number operator ( , and = switch) We can search in a file according to line numbers. Example13: Suppose I want to search in only 3rd line and then replace the term in that line alone. sed ‘3 s/Surendra/bca/’ tem.txt Example14:Search from 1st line to 4th line and replace that term. sed ‘1,4 s/Surendra/bca/’ tem.txt Example15:Search for a term from 3rd line to 5th line and replace it only between these lines. sed ‘3,5 s/Surendra/bca/’ tem.txt Example16:Search for a term from 2nd line to the end of the file and replace it with a term. sed ‘2,$ s/Surendra/bca/’ tem.txt Example17:How about combining two-line in to a single line. The below script will use N option which try to merge two, two lines in to single line and it will keep newline character in the combine line. sed ‘N’ tem.txt The output will not differ to the input file. If you want to really see the difference you have to use search and replace for n to some space or tab(t) sed ‘N;s/n/ /’ tem.txt Output: surendra audi kumar nudi mouni surendra baby dudy Note:The above command is not used much of the time and I used this example...