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00:01 | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on sed - the stream editor. |
00:05 | In this tutorial, we will learn usage of sed command. |
00:11 | We will do this through some examples. |
00:14 | To record this tutorial, |
00:16 | I am usingUbuntu Linux version 12.04 Operating System and GNU BASH version 4.2.24 |
00:26 | Please note, GNU bash version 4 or above is recommended to practice this tutorial. |
00:34 | As prerequisites, |
00:36 | you should know basics of Linux terminal. |
00:39 | For relevant tutorials please visit our website which is as shown: http://spoken-tutorial.org |
00:45 | Let us start with an introduction to sed: |
00:48 | sed is a stream editor. |
00:51 | sed finds some pattern of text in a particular location of a file. |
00:58 | It performs some display or editing function- |
01:02 | editing function like insertion, substitution and deletion in matched text. |
01:10 | Let us start with some examples. |
01:13 | We will see how to print using the sed command. |
01:19 | I have a file called seddemo.txt in home directory version. |
01:24 | Let us view its contents. |
01:26 | In this file we have some entries like roll no, name, stream, marks, pass or fail and the stipend amount. |
01:39 | Now, suppose we want to print the second line of the file. |
01:44 | For this, we need to open the terminal by pressing
CTRL + ALT and T keys simultaneously on your keyboard. |
01:53 | Now Type: |
01:55 | sed space within single quotes ‘2p’ after the single quotes space seddemo.txt |
02:03 | Press Enter. |
02:06 | Here, 2 denotes the location which is the second line. |
02:11 | p denotes the action, which is printing(p). |
02:16 | Now Look at the output. |
02:18 | It shows the entire file but see that the second line is printed twice. |
02:25 | This is the default behavior of the action p. |
02:29 | To only print the second line, |
02:31 | type: |
02:33 | sed space -n space (Within single quotes) 2p after the single quotes space seddemo.txt |
02:44 | Press Enter. |
02:46 | We see only the second line as printed. |
02:51 | -n stands for ‘silent mode’ which will suppress all unnecessary output. |
02:58 | Then we give the location in the stream that we want to edit or display. |
03:03 | We want to select the second line. |
03:07 | p indicates the action we want to take i.e to print the second line. |
03:12 | And seddemo.txt is the name of the file. |
03:18 | This is the general syntax of sed command. |
03:21 | Now let us print the last line of the file. |
03:26 | Let me clear the prompt. |
03:29 | Now type: |
03:32 | sed space -n space within single quotes (dollar) $p after the single quotes space seddemo.txt |
03:42 | Press Enter. |
03:43 | We see that the last line is printed. |
03:49 | Now come back to our text editor. |
03:51 | Suppose we want to print the entries from 3rd to 6th. |
03:57 | For this, we need to type on the terminal: |
04:00 | sed space -n space within single quotes 3 (comma) ,6p’ space seddemo.txt |
04:14 | Press Enter. |
04:16 | The output is displayed from the third line to the sixth line. |
04:21 | Any of the actions can be reversed by using the exclamation mark before the action. |
04:28 | Say, if we had to print all lines except from 3rd to 6th we will type:
sed space -n space within single quotes ‘3 (comma) ,6 (exclamation mark) !p |
04:44 | after the single quotes space seddemo.txt |
04:51 | Press Enter. |
04:53 | The output is displayed. |
04:56 | Let us switch back to our slides. |
04:58 | Line addressing and context addressing. |
05:03 | So far, we specified the lines in the file on which the action needs to be taken. |
05:09 | This is known as line addressing- |
05:12 | address specified by the line numbers. |
05:15 | This is one way of addressing. |
05:18 | Another way of addressing is Context addressing- |
05:22 | lines that contain particular context say a particular word. |
05:28 | If we want to take actions on lines that contain a particular word, we use context addressing. |
05:36 | Regular expressions can be used. |
05:39 | Let us see an example. |
05:42 | Come back to our text editor. |
05:44 | Say, we want to print those lines which have the word computers. |
05:50 | Come back to our terminal. |
05:53 | Now type: |
05:54 | sed space -n space within single quotes front slash (opening square bracket) [cC] (Closing Square bracket) omputers/p after the single quotesspace seddemo.txt |
06:20 | Press Enter. |
06:23 | We see the lines with the word "computers" is displayed. |
06:28 | We write pattern within square brackets. |
06:31 | This is to match any one or both of the characters within square brackets. |
06:36 | When we need to match patterns, the pattern needs to be typed between front slashes. |
06:43 | We can print it in a file as well, using the w option. |
06:50 | For this type: |
06:52 | sed space -n space within single quotes front-slash (opening square bracket) [cC] (closing square bracket) omputers/w space computer_student.txt after the single quotes space seddemo.txt |
07:18 | Press Enter. |
07:21 | Now all the matching lines would be transferred to the file computer_student.txt. |
07:27 | Let us view the content of computer_student |
07:31 | Type: cat space computer_student.txt |
07:38 | Press Enter. |
07:42 | We see the entries. |
07:43 | We can also have patterns that we can write to different files. |
07:50 | Let us clear the prompt. |
07:52 | Type: sed space -n space -e space (within single quotes) (front slash) ‘/electronics/w space electro.txt’ after the single quotes space -e space (within single quotes) (front slash) ‘/civil/w space civil.txt’ after the single quote space seddemo.txt |
08:24 | Press Enter |
08:28 | Here -e is used to combine multiple methods. |
08:34 | This would create two files electro.txt and civil.txt. |
08:41 | To see what they contain, type: |
08:43 | cat space electro.txt |
08:49 | This will display the entries with the word "electronics". |
08:54 | Let us see the contents of civil file. |
08:58 | Type: cat space civil.txt |
09:01 | press Enter. |
09:03 | This will display the entries having the word "civil". |
09:08 | We will see some more set of commands in another tutorial. |
09:12 | I will use the same program. |
09:14 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. |
09:18 | Let us switch back to our slide. |
09:20 | we will summarize, |
09:22 | In this tutorial we learnt, sed: |
09:25 | * To print using sed. |
09:26 | * Line Addressing. |
09:27 | * Context Addressing. |
09:30 | As an assignment, |
09:32 | use the same text file seddemo.txt, |
09:35 | try to print records from 6th to 12th line. |
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