How Quit Sed When Matched

Question

I have a text file like aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa .... I use the sed to replace the string of "aaaa" with "bbbb", the command is

sed -i "/aaaa/c\bbbb" mytextfile

but I want the sed to stop processing when it finds first match.The output will be like this bbbb aaaa aaaa aaaa .... Anybody tells how to do that?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 13 '14 at 13:49

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Try the following:

sed '0,/aaaa/{s/aaaa/bbbb/}' mytextfile

answered Oct 13 '14 at 13:49

Fazlin

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