How To Install sed.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sed.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sed.x86_64 is A GNU stream text editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sed.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sed.x86_64`

The sed (Stream EDitor) editor is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor. Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on the text and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified in a script file or from the command line.

We can use yum to install sed.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sed.x86_64.

Install sed.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sed.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sed.x86_64

How To Uninstall sed.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sed.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sed.x86_64

sed.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/bin/sed
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/README
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2/sedfaq.txt.gz
/usr/share/info/sed.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/sed.1.gz

References

sed.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sed.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.