我需要一个在GNU和BSD上都可以工作的解决方案，而且我也知道第一行永远不会是我需要更新的一行:

sed -e "1,/pattern/s/pattern/replacement/"

尝试//特性不重复模式对我不起作用，因此需要重复它。

使用FreeBSD ed，避免ed在文件中没有include语句时出现“no match”错误:

teststr='
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
'

# using FreeBSD ed
# to avoid ed's "no match" error, see
# *emphasized text*http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/11917 
cat <<-'EOF' | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//' | ed -s <(echo "$teststr")
   H
   ,g/# *include/u\
   u\
   i\
   #include "newfile.h"\
   .
   ,p
   q
EOF

POSIXly(在sed中也有效)，只使用一个正则表达式，只需要一行内存(和往常一样):

sed '/\(#include\).*/!b;//{h;s//\1 "newfile.h"/;G};:1;n;b1'

解释道:

sed '
/\(#include\).*/!b          # Only one regex used. On lines not matching
                            # the text  `#include` **yet**,
                            # branch to end, cause the default print. Re-start.
//{                         # On first line matching previous regex.
    h                       # hold the line.
    s//\1 "newfile.h"/      # append ` "newfile.h"` to the `#include` matched.
    G                       # append a newline.
  }                         # end of replacement.
:1                          # Once **one** replacement got done (the first match)
n                           # Loop continually reading a line each time
b1                          # and printing it by default.
'                           # end of sed script.

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。

一个可能的解决方案:

    /#include/!{p;d;}
    i\
    #include "newfile.h"
    :a
    n
    ba

解释:

读取行，直到找到#include，打印这些行，然后开始新的循环 插入新的包含行 输入一个只读取行(默认情况下sed也会打印这些行)的循环，我们不会从这里回到脚本的第一部分

如果有人来这里替换所有行中第一次出现的字符(比如我自己)，使用这个:

sed '/old/s/old/new/1' file

-bash-4.2$ cat file
123a456a789a
12a34a56
a12
-bash-4.2$ sed '/a/s/a/b/1' file
123b456a789a
12b34a56
b12

例如，通过将1改为2，你可以只替换所有的第二个a。