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|| '''VISUAL CUE'''
|| '''NARRATION'''
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|| '''Slide 1:'''
|| Welcome to the spoken tutorial''' '''on '''Sed Commands with Files.'''
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|| '''Slide 2:'''

'''Learning Objectives'''
|| In this tutorial, we will learn about
* Delete command
* Write command
* Read command
* Append command
* Insert command
* Change command
* Execute command
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|| '''Slide 3:'''

'''System requirements'''
|| This tutorial is recorded using
* '''Ubuntu Linux '''OS version 18.04 
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|| '''Slide 4:'''

'''Prerequisites'''
|| To follow this tutorial, you should know Basics of Linux.

If not, then go through the relevant spoken tutorials on this website.
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|| '''Slide 5(a):'''

'''Delete Command'''

|| First we will see about the delete command in sed
* '''Sed''' command can be used to remove specific lines which matches a given pattern in the file.
* This command removes lines only from the pattern buffer.
* The original file remains unchanged.
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|| '''Slide 5(b):'''

'''Syntax:'''
'''sed [range1][range2]d filename'''
'''Highlight according to narration'''

|| This is the syntax for the delete command.* '''range1, range2''' are the starting and ending range.
* It can be either a line number or pattern strings.
* '''d '''specifies the delete option
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|| '''Slide 6:'''

'''Code files - IndianBooks.txt'''
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* The files used in this tutorial are available in the '''Code Files '''link on this tutorial page.
* Please download and extract them
* Make a copy and then use them while practising
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|| Open the terminal 
|| Open the terminal by pressing '''Ctrl+Alt+T''' keys simultaneously.

Press the enter key after every command.
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|| >> cat '''IndianBooks.txt'''
|| Let us open the file '''IndianBooks.txt '''which''' '''I have saved in the downloads folder.

I’ll be using this file for demonstration of various file commands.
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> '''sed ‘d’ IndianBooks.txt'''
||First we will see how the '''delete''' command is used in files.

Type the command as shown

We couldn’t see any output. Why?

We didn’t give any line address. So '''Sed''' operates on every line by default.

It deletes all the lines from the pattern buffer.

Hence it does not print anything on the standard output.
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|| >'''sed ‘4d’ IndianBooks.txt'''

Point to the output
|| Let us give the specific line number as shown for the '''Sed '''command to work.

We can see the 4th line is deleted.
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|| '''sed ‘2,6d’ IndianBooks.txt'''
|| Type the command as shown.

We can also give a range of line numbers that can be deleted.

This command deletes all the lines from 2 to 6.
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||'''sed ‘/R K Narayan/d’ IndianBooks.txt'''
||We can specify patterns instead of line numbers as shown here.

This has deleted the lines which have the author name as '''R K Narayan.'''
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|| 

> cat '''IndianBooks'''.txt

Highlight the text between '''Malgudi''' and '''Crescent'''.

>sed ‘/Malgudi/,/Crescent/d’ '''IndianBooks'''.txt
||We can also specify a range using a textual pattern.

For example, we want to remove all the lines between the patterns '''Malgudi''' and '''Crescent'''.

Type '''sed space within single quotes forward slash Malgudi forward slash comma forward slash Crescent forward slash d space IndianBooks.txt '''

Look at the output.
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|| >sed ‘$d’ '''IndianBooks.txt'''

'''Highlight $d'''
|| Type the command as shown.

We can delete the last line of a file using the special character dollar $.
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|| >sed ‘1!d’ '''IndianBooks.txt'''

'''Highlight 1d'''

|| Next we will see how to use the negation operator.

Type the command as shown.

Here ‘1’ specifies the line number of the file.

The negation operator''' with d '''indicates, not to delete the first line.

We can see, this sed command removes all the lines except the first line.
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|| > sed ‘1d;$d’ '''IndianBooks.txt'''

|| This command will delete the first and last line.

We can specify the list of lines to be removed with semicolon as a delimiter.
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|| sed ‘/^1/d’ '''IndianBooks.txt'''

|| This command removes all the lines that begin with ‘1’.

Recall that the caret(^) symbol specifies the starting of a line.

We can see that line 1 and line 10 are deleted.
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|| >sed ‘/3$/d’ <'''IndianBooks.txt'''

|| Type the command as shown.

This command deletes all the lines that end with '3'. 

$ is to indicate the end of the line.

We can see that the lines ending with 3 in the published year are deleted.
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|| >sed '/[38]$/d' '''IndianBooks.txt'''

|| This sed command deletes all the lines that end with either 3 or 8.

Note that the lines ending with 3 or 8 in the published year are deleted.
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|| '''Slide 7: Delete command: Note:'''
||In all the above examples, the sed command does not remove the lines from the source file.

It prints the content of the file on the Linux terminal by removing the lines. 

To remove the lines from the source file itself, use -i option with sed command. 

Otherwise, you can redirect the output of the sed command to another file. 

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||Next we will see about the write command.
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||'''Slide 8:'''
'''Write command'''

||Sed reads a line and places it in a pattern buffer.

Then writes the pattern buffer to the given output file according to the given options.
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|| '''Slide 9:'''

'''Write command'''

Syntax: sed 'ADDRESS w outputfile' inputfile 

|| Here '''‘w'''’ represents the write command. It should be at the end of all options.

'''Address''' can be either line numbers or pattern strings.

'''outputfile '''is the filename where the output has to be stored.

'''inputfile''' is the input file for the command to execute.

Note that sed creates an output file if it is not present and over writes if it is already present.
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|| Switch back to the terminal.
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||sed -n ‘w books_copy.txt’ '''IndianBooks.txt'''

|| Type the write command as shown: 

If you open '''books_copy.txt''', you will see the copy of the content of '''IndianBooks.txt'''
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> sed -n ‘1~2 w out.txt’ '''IndianBooks'''.txt

|| We can copy only certain line numbers to another file.

Type the command to copy all odd lines to another file.

We can see only the odd lines are copied to''' out.txt'''
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|| sed -n ‘/Gandhi/ w GandhiBooks.txt’ '''IndianBooks.txt'''

|| Type the command as shown.

We can give patterns that have to be copied to another file.

This command will store the books with author name Gandhi to another file.

Let us see the output file '''GandhiBooks.txt'''
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|| Next we will see the '''Read''' command.
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|| '''Slide 10:'''

'''Read Command'''
|| Using the Read command, we can read the content of another file.

It appends with each line of the input file as specified in the sed command pattern.
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|| Switch back to the terminal.
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|| > cat '''new_books.txt'''
|| Let us open the file '''new_books.txt '''which has 3 lines.
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|| '''sed ‘4 r< new_books.txt’ IndianBooks.txt'''
|| This command instructs sed to read the content from '''new_book.txt .'''

Then it inserts after the 4th line in '''IndianBooks.txt'''

Here 4 specifies the line number and r specifies the read command.
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|| '''Slide 11:'''

'''Assignment'''
||As an assignment, try the below commands and see the output.

'''sed ‘4,6 r new_books.txt’ IndianBooks.txt'''
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|| '''Append command'''
|| Next we will see about the '''Append''' command
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'''> sed ‘$ a 11. Broken wings, Sarojini Naidu, 1916’ IndianBooks.txt'''

|| Let us append a new book entry at the end of the '''IndianBooks'''.'''txt''' file.

Type the command with the new book entry as shown.

Here ‘a’ indicates append command and $ indicates the end of the file.
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|| '''>sed ‘6 a 11. Broken wings, Sarojini Naidu, 1916’ IndianBooks.txt'''

|| Suppose if we want to insert in between the lines.

Type the command with line number as shown.

Here 6 indicates the line number and ‘a’ is the append command.
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|| '''>sed ‘/Hind Swaraj/ a 11. Broken wings, Sarojini Naidu, 1916’ IndianBooks.txt'''

Highlight /'''Hind Swaraj/'''
|| This command specifies a text pattern instead of line number.

Look at the output.

The new book entry has appended after the pattern ‘Hind swaraj’.
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|| '''> sed ‘/My/ a 11. Broken wings, Sarojini Naidu, 1916’ IndianBooks.txt'''

Highlight /'''My/'''

|| Type this command:

If there are multiple patterns matching, then the text is appended after each match.
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|| Next we will see the '''Insert''' command.
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|| '''Insert command'''

'''> sed ‘3 i 3. Our films, Their Films, Satyajit Ray, 1976’ IndianBooks.txt'''

'''Highlight 3 and ‘i’'''
|| Insert command is the same as append command.

But it inserts a line before a specific position.

Type the command as shown:

This command inserts the new text before the third line.

Here 3 is the line number and ‘i’ represents the insert command.
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|| '''change command'''
|| Next we will see about the '''change''' or Replace command.

This command replaces the existing line with new text.
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|| '''> sed ‘3 c 3. Our films, Their Films, Satyajit Ray, 1976’ IndianBooks.txt'''
|| Let us replace the third line in''' IndianBooks.txt '''with some new text.

Type the command as shown.

‘c’ indicates the change command.

We can see the third line is replaced with the new text.
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|| '''> sed ‘6, 8 c 3. Our films, Their Films, Satyajit Ray, 1976’ IndianBooks.txt'''
|| We can also replace multiple lines with a single line.

Type the command as shown.

The lines 6 to 8 are replaced with the new text.
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|| Next we will see the execute command.
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|| '''Execute command'''

'''>> sed ‘4 e date’ IndianBooks.txt'''
|| Type the command as shown. 

'''e''' represent the execute command.

This will execute the external command and insert at the matched pattern.

We can see the date is inserted at the fourth line.
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|| '''Slide 12:'''

'''Summary'''
|| With this we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
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|| In this tutorial, we learnt
* Delete command
* Write command
* Read command
* Append command
* Insert command
* Change command
* Execute command

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|| '''Slide 13:'''

'''Assignment:'''
|| As an Assignment, try the below commands and see the output.

> sed ‘4,6 r date’ '''IndianBooks'''.txt

> sed ‘/My/ e date’ '''IndianBooks'''.txt
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|| '''Slide 14:'''

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|| '''Slide 17: '''

'''Acknowledgement'''
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