honzatomek/learn_gnused

Example based guide to mastering GNU sed

GNU SED

Example based guide to mastering GNU sed.

The book also includes exercises to test your understanding, which is presented together as a single file in this repo - Exercises.md

See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.

E-book

You can purchase the book using these links:

• https://gumroad.com/l/gnu_sed
• https://leanpub.com/gnu_sed
• You can also get the book as part of Magical one-liners bundle from https://gumroad.com/l/oneliners or https://leanpub.com/b/oneliners
• You can also get the book as part of Awesome Regex bundle from https://leanpub.com/b/regex or https://gumroad.com/l/regex
• See https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/ for list of other books

For a preview of the book, see sample chapters

The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdf from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.

Feedback

Please open an issue if you spot any typo/errors.

I'd also highly appreciate your feedback about the book.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48641172-gnu-sed

Twitter: https://twitter.com/learn_byexample

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. In-place file editing
4. Selective editing
5. BRE/ERE Regular Expressions
6. Flags
7. Shell substitutions
8. z, s and f command line options
9. append, change, insert
10. Adding content from file
11. Control structures
12. Processing lines bounded by distinct markers
13. Gotchas and Tricks
14. Further Reading

Acknowledgements

• GNU sed documentation - manual and examples
• stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange - for getting answers to pertinent questions on bash, sed and other commands
• tex.stackexchange - for help on pandoc and tex related questions
• Cover image
  • LibreOffice Draw
• softwareengineering.stackexchange and skolakoda for programming quotes
• Warning and Info icons by Amada44 under public domain
• arifmahmudrana for spotting an ambiguous explanation

Special thanks to all my friends and online acquaintances for their help, support and encouragement, especially during difficult times.

License

The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file