# sed script to change "foo" to "bar" only on the first occurrence
 1{x;s/^/first/;x;}
 1,/foo/{x;/first/s///;x;s/foo/bar/;}
 #---end of script---

或者，如果你喜欢:编辑注:只适用于GNU sed。

sed '0,/foo/s//bar/' file 

源

没什么新内容，只是可能有一些更具体的答案:sed -rn '0，/foo(bar)。* / % % \ 1% p '

示例:xwininfo -name unit -launcher输出如下:

xwininfo: Window id: 0x2200003 "unity-launcher"

  Absolute upper-left X:  -2980
  Absolute upper-left Y:  -198
  Relative upper-left X:  0
  Relative upper-left Y:  0
  Width: 2880
  Height: 98
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0x21
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +-2980+-198  -2980+-198  -2980-1900  +-2980-1900
  -geometry 2880x98+-2980+-198

使用xwininfo -name unit -launcher|sed -rn '0提取窗口ID，/^xwininfo:窗口ID: (0x[0-9a- fa -f]+)。*/ s%%\1%p'产生:

0x2200003

我将提出一个建议，这并不完全是最初的问题所要求的，但对于那些还想特别替换匹配的第二次出现，或任何其他特别枚举的正则表达式匹配的人来说。使用python脚本和for循环，如果需要从bash脚本调用它。这是它看起来像我，在我替换特定行包含字符串-项目:

def replace_models(file_path, pixel_model, obj_model):
    # find your file --project matches
    pattern = re.compile(r'--project.*')
    new_file = ""
    with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
        match = 1
        for line in f:
            # Remove line ending before we do replacement
            line = line.strip()
            # replace first --project line match with pixel
            if match == 1:
                result = re.sub(pattern, "--project='" + pixel_model + "'", line)
            # replace second --project line match with object
            elif match == 2:
                result = re.sub(pattern, "--project='" + obj_model + "'", line)
            else:
                result = line
            # Check that a substitution was actually made
            if result is not line:
                # Add a backslash to the replaced line
                result += " \\"
                print("\nReplaced ", line, " with ", result)
                # Increment number of matches found
                match += 1
            # Add the potentially modified line to our new file
            new_file = new_file + result + "\n"
        # close file / save output
        f.close()
    fout = open(file_path, "w")
    fout.write(new_file)
    fout.close()

sed脚本只将“Apple”第一次出现的位置替换为“Banana”

例子

     Input:      Output:

     Apple       Banana
     Apple       Apple
     Orange      Orange
     Apple       Apple

这是一个简单的脚本:编辑注:只适用于GNU sed。

sed '0,/Apple/{s/Apple/Banana/}' input_filename

前两个参数0和/Apple/是范围说明符。s/Apple/Banana/是在这个范围内执行的。因此，在这种情况下，“在Apple的开始(0)到第一个实例的范围内，将Apple替换为Banana。只有第一代苹果会被取代。

Background: In traditional sed the range specifier is also "begin here" and "end here" (inclusive). However the lowest "begin" is the first line (line 1), and if the "end here" is a regex, then it is only attempted to match against on the next line after "begin", so the earliest possible end is line 2. So since range is inclusive, smallest possible range is "2 lines" and smallest starting range is both lines 1 and 2 (i.e. if there's an occurrence on line 1, occurrences on line 2 will also be changed, not desired in this case). GNU sed adds its own extension of allowing specifying start as the "pseudo" line 0 so that the end of the range can be line 1, allowing it a range of "only the first line" if the regex matches the first line.

或者一个简化版本(空的RE，如//，意味着重用之前指定的，所以这是等价的):

sed '0,/Apple/{s//Banana/}' input_filename

对于s命令，花括号是可选的，所以这也是等价的:

sed '0,/Apple/s//Banana/' input_filename

所有这些工作都只在GNU上进行。

你也可以使用homebrew brew install GNU -sed在OS X上安装GNU sed。

sed '0,/pattern/s/pattern/replacement/' filename

这对我很管用。

例子

sed '0,/<Menu>/s/<Menu>/<Menu><Menu>Sub menu<\/Menu>/' try.txt > abc.txt

编者注:两者都只适用于GNU sed。

相当全面的linuxtopia常见问题解答集合。它还强调了人们提供的一些答案不能与非gnu版本的sed一起工作，例如

sed '0,/RE/s//to_that/' file

在非gnu版本中必须是

sed -e '1s/RE/to_that/;t' -e '1,/RE/s//to_that/'

但是，这个版本不能与gnu sed一起工作。

下面是一个两者都适用的版本:

-e '/RE/{s//to_that/;:a' -e '$!N;$!ba' -e '}'

ex:

sed -e '/Apple/{s//Banana/;:a' -e '$!N;$!ba' -e '}' filename