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Sed and Awk Command Syntax Guide

Sed is a non-interactive stream editor that performs text transformations on input files. It has various addressing options to select lines including line numbers, patterns, and ranges. Common sed commands include substitute to replace text, insert to add text, delete to remove text, and print selected lines.

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Sed and Awk Command Syntax Guide

Sed is a non-interactive stream editor that performs text transformations on input files. It has various addressing options to select lines including line numbers, patterns, and ranges. Common sed commands include substitute to replace text, insert to add text, delete to remove text, and print selected lines.

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  • Introduction to Sed and Awk
  • Sed Overview
  • Single-Line Address
  • Range Address
  • Single Pattern Match Address
  • Range Pattern Match Address
  • Address with Exclamation
  • Sed Options
  • Sed Commands Overview
  • Line Number Command
  • Modify Commands

sed and awk

Sed
• Sed is a multipurpose command which performs the work of several
filters
• Sed is non interative stream editor.
• Sed Syntax:
# sed options ‘address action’ file
Sed syntax
# sed options ‘address action’ input_file

By line number
By pattern match
Single-Line address
Range Address

Single Pattern address


Range Pattern Address
Single-Line address
• Specifies only one line in the input file
Examples:
• show only line 4
#sed ‘4q' input-file
• show only last line
#sed ‘$p’/proc/cpuinfo
• Observe what happens? Last line is printed two times.
• Always use –n option to suppress duplicate printing.
• substitute “endif” with “fi” on line 10
#sed ‘10 s/endif/fi/’ input-file
Range Address (between two line numbers)
• Prints line between specified line numbers

Examples:
• Sed –n ‘1,10p’ /proc/cpuinfo
Single Pattern match address
• use regular expression to match lines
• written between two slashes
• process only lines that match
• may match several lines
• lines may or may not be consecutives

Examples:
• sed ‘/processor/s/:/::/’ /proc/cpuinfo
Range Pattern match address
• Prints line between two springs.
Sed –n ‘/pattern1/,/pattern2/p’ input_file

address1 address2

• Line between pattern1 and pattern2 are printed


Address with ! (print not of)
• Address with an exclamation point (!) instruction will be applied to all
lines that do not match the address

Example:
print lines that do not contain “obsolete”
sed -e ‘/obsolete/!p’ input-file
Sed options

Example
sed –e ‘1,2p’ –e ‘6,8’ –e ‘$ p’ file_name
sed –i ‘1,2p’ –e ‘6,8’ –e ‘$ p’ file_name
Sed commands
Line Number
• line number command (=) writes the current line number before each
matched/output line

Examples:
• sed '/processor/=' /proc/cpuinfo
• Now try and observe the diffrence:
• sed -n '/processor/=' /proc/cpuinfo
Modify Commands
Modify Commands

Modify Commands Discription Example


Insert (i) seq 3 | sed '2i hello’
Append (a) Seq 10 | sed ‘2a hello’
Change (c)
Delete (d)
Substitute (s/str1/str2/)

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