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The document discusses various line addressing and editing commands in sed. It describes how to select specific lines or ranges of lines using line numbers or patterns. It also covers inserting, appending, changing, deleting, and writing lines using sed commands. Context addressing allows selecting lines between two patterns. The r, w, a and c commands can be used to read, write, append, and change lines.

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The document discusses various line addressing and editing commands in sed. It describes how to select specific lines or ranges of lines using line numbers or patterns. It also covers inserting, appending, changing, deleting, and writing lines using sed commands. Context addressing allows selecting lines between two patterns. The r, w, a and c commands can be used to read, write, append, and change lines.

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Line Addressing

To overcome the problem of printing duplicate lines, you should use the -n option whenever you use the p command. $ sed -n 1,2p emp.lst $ sed n $p emp.lst To reverse line selection criteria, use !. $ sed -n 3,$!p emp.lst To select lines from the middle, do as: sed -n 9,11p emp.lst

Line Addressing
You can select multiple sections as follows: $ sed -n -e 1,2p -e 7,9p -e $p emp.lst The second form of addressing lets you specify a pattern (or two) rather than line numbers. This is known as context addressing where the pattern has a / on either side. You can locate the senders in your mailbox: sed -n '/From: /p' /var/mail/cs497c

Context Addressing
sed n /^From: /p /var/mail/cs497c sed n /wilco[cx]k*s*/p emp.lst You can also specify a comma-separated pair of context address to select a group of contiguous lines: sed n /johnson/,/lightfoot/p emp.lst To list files which have written permission for the group: ls l | sed n /^..w/p

Editing Text
Apart from selecting lines, sed can edit text itself. Like vi, sed uses the i (insert), a (append), c (change) and r (read) commands in similar manner. Use the a command and have a \ at the end of each line except the last one.You can append two lines in this way: $ sed $a\ > # Place this line at the end wwwlib.pl > $$

Editing Text
You can use the following command to insert the blank line before every line:
sed i\ foo

In C Shell, this needs to be done in this way:


sed i\\ \ foo

Editing Text
The r (read) command lets you read in a file at a certain location of the file.
sed /<FORM>/r template.html form_entry.html

The d (delete) command removes lines. sed /^#/d foo > bar The w (write) command writes the selected lines to a separate file.
sed /<FORM>/,/<\/FORM>/w forms.html *.html

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