这里可能的解决方案是告诉编译器包含头文件，而不在源文件中提到它。在GCC中有这些选项:

   -include file
       Process file as if "#include "file"" appeared as the first line of
       the primary source file.  However, the first directory searched for
       file is the preprocessor's working directory instead of the
       directory containing the main source file.  If not found there, it
       is searched for in the remainder of the "#include "..."" search
       chain as normal.

       If multiple -include options are given, the files are included in
       the order they appear on the command line.

   -imacros file
       Exactly like -include, except that any output produced by scanning
       file is thrown away.  Macros it defines remain defined.  This
       allows you to acquire all the macros from a header without also
       processing its declarations.

       All files specified by -imacros are processed before all files
       specified by -include.

微软的编译器有/FI(强制包含)选项。

这个特性对于一些常见的头文件来说很方便，比如平台配置。Linux内核的Makefile为此使用-include。

作为一种替代建议，您可能希望查看ed命令。

man 1 ed

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

# for in-place file editing use "ed -s file" and replace ",p" with "w"
# cf. http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/edit-ed
cat <<-'EOF' | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//' | ed -s <(echo "$teststr")
   H
   /# *include/i
   #include "newfile.h"
   .
   ,p
   q
EOF

我会用一个awk脚本来做到这一点:

BEGIN {i=0}
(i==0) && /#include/ {print "#include \"newfile.h\""; i=1}
{print $0}    
END {}

然后用awk运行它:

awk -f awkscript headerfile.h > headerfilenew.h

可能有点草率，我是新手。

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GNU sed的-z选项，您可以像处理一行文件一样处理整个文件。这样，s/…/…/将只替换整个文件中的第一个匹配项。记住:s/…/…/只替换每行中的第一个匹配项，但是使用-z选项sed将整个文件视为一行。

sed -z 's/#include/#include "newfile.h"\n#include'

在一般情况下，您必须重写sed表达式，因为模式空间现在包含整个文件，而不仅仅是一行。一些例子:

s /文本。*//可以重写为s/text[^\n]*//。[^\n]匹配除换行符以外的所有内容。[^\n]*将匹配文本后的所有符号，直到出现换行符。 S /^text//可以重写为S /(^|\n)text//。 S /text$//可以重写为S /text(\n|$)//。

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。