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<span style="font-size: large;">Sed Tutorials

If you have written anything about sed – whether an introduction, how sed got you out of a real-life situation, or perhaps an advanced technique you&#8217;ve discovered – you may like have your work published here. <a href="mailto:bonzini@gnu.org">Your contribution will be very welcome.

<span style="font-size: medium;">Intros

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sed1line.txt">sed one-liners (18kb)

The essential, official compendium of useful sed one-liners. Organised into sections by usage, such as file spacing, line numbering, selective line removal/deletion and optimisation.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sedfaq.txt">The sed FAQ v15 (168kb)

The official, indispensable sed FAQ. This file was recently updated. Also available as <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sedfaq.zip">ZIP-compressed HTML (75kb). The latest version can always be found on <a href="http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sedfaq.html">the author&#8217;s site.

<a href="http://www.dreamwvr.com/sed-info/sed-faq.html">Another sed FAQ

And here is another sed FAQ, by a different person.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/do_it_with_sed.txt">Do it with sed (51kb)

By <a href="mailto:cgd@teleweb.pt">Carlos Jorge G.Duarte. A comprehensive and leisurely résumé. Contains many interesting examples, and a useful command summary.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sed_mcmahon.txt">SED – A Non-interactive Text Editor (32kb)

By Lee E. McMahon (1978). The definitive introduction, this well-known document used to be distributed with UNIX systems. It examines each of sed&#8217;s functions in depth and includes useful examples.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sed_state.txt">Program state in sed (4kb)

By Greg Ubben. A nice introduction to advanced sed, showing how to mantain state across lines.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sed_introduction.txt">Introduction to Unix&#8217;s SED editor

By F. Curtis Michel, Rice University, Houston.

<span style="font-size: medium;">Advanced topics

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/indexer.txt">Using sed to create a book index (12kb)

Eric Pement of Cornerstone magazine shows how he used sed and other utilities to massage an unsorted list of book references into an index.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lookup_tables.txt">Using lookup tables with s/// (9kb)

Part 1 of Greg Ubben&#8217;s analysis of a complex sed script he wrote to sort, delimit and number an input file containing tabulated data. Lookup tables are a powerful technique for the serious seder&#8217;s armoury.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lookup_table_counter.txt">A lookup-table counter (11kb)

Part 2 of Greg&#8217;s script analysis looks at how he implemented a counter using lookup tables. This complex problem is described step by step from the basics, following through Greg&#8217;s reasoning until we finally reach the solution.

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/greg_wc.txt">Counting words (3kb)
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/greg_add.txt">Adding a list of decimals (3kb)

Greg explains how to count words and how to add a list of decimal numbers using a simple analog format.

<span style="font-size: medium;">Miscellaneous

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nasty_characters.txt">When seemingly obvious scripts fail (2kb)

sed FAQ author Eric Pement explains why sometimes you cannot get your one-liner right.

<a href="http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/tutorials/hanoi.htm">Towers of Hanoi with <a href="http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/tutorials/hanoi.htm">sed (18kb)

A document which shows how to make sed solve the classic Towers of Hanoi game.

<a href="http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/tutorials/custom_sed.htm">Proposals for a custom sed (18kb)

A list of proposals to make sed more versatile without sacrificing its speed and overall philosophy. I implemented a few of these in <a href="http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/ssed/">super-sed and in GNU sed 4.0. <h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/08/24/happy-birthday-unix/">Happy Birthday, Unix! (geeksaresexy.net) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/142108/2009/08/smultrongone.html?lsrc=rss_main">The end of the road for a favored text editor (macworld.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com/2009/08/22/turn-vim-or-emacs-into-and-ide-with-exuberant-ctags/">Turn Vim or Emacs Into and IDE With Exuberant-Ctags (slumpedoverkeyboarddead.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/86aac4a7-499d-4cfc-b63f-4e5dca76c396/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" style="border: medium none; float: right;" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_e4.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution">