What is the significance of -n parameter passed to sed command?

Question

Can someone please tell me how does sed -n \'1!p work ? Below is the full command which I am using to sort my pods in k8s based on nodes they are assigned.

Answer 1

By default, sed will output every line it parses.
-n option is there to hide this output, and display only the lines specified with the p option.

In your exemple, sed -n '1!p' means "Display every line but first".

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A more understandable example is when you want to search/replace with sed. If you want to see the whole resulting file you'll use this:

sed 's/from/to/g' file.txt

But if you only want to see which lines have been changed, use this:

sed -n 's/from/to/gp' file.txt