Regex to replace last occurrence of a string in each line

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You need to add 'g' to the end of your sed:

sed -e 's/\(.*\)ABC/\1DEF/g'

This tells sed to replace every occurrence of your regex ("globally") instead of only the first occurrence.

EDIT: You should also add a $, if you want to ensure that it is replacing the last occurrence of ABC on the line:

sed -e 's/\(.*\)ABC$/\1DEF/g'
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Updated on June 01, 2022

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  • Michael
    Michael about 2 years

    I am using sed -e 's/\(.*\)ABC/\1DEF/' myfile to replace the last occurrence of ABC with DEF in a file.

    I want to modify it to replace the last occurrence of ABC with DEF in each line in the file.

    Is it possible to do with regex ?

    Thanks

    • anubhava
      anubhava about 13 years
      Actually sed -e 's/\(.*\)ABC/\1DEF/' will replace last occurrence of ABC` in each line of the file.