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→INVESTIGATION 1: USING THE SED UTILITY
# Issue the following linux command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">sed -n '2,5 p' data.txt</span><br><br>What do you think is displayed? (in another SSH session, compare with contents in the data.txt text file to confirm).<br><br>The '''s''' command is used to substitute patterns (similar to method demonstratedin vi editor).<br><br>
# Issue the following linux command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">sed '2,5 s/TUTORIAL/LESSON/g' data.txt</span><br><br>What do you notice? View the original contents of lines 2 to 5 in the '''data.txt''' file in another shell to confirm that the substitution occurred.<br><br>The '''q''' command terminates or quits the execution of the sed utility as soon as it read in a particular line or matching pattern.<br><br>
# Issue the following linux command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">sed '11 q' data.txt</span><br><br>What did you notice?<br><br>You can use regular expressions to select lines that match a pattern. The rules remain the same for using regular expressions as demonstrated in lab8 except the regular expression must be contained within delimiters such as the forward slash "/" when using the sed utility.# Issue the following linux command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">sed -n '/^The/ p' data.txt</span><br><br>What do you notice?<br><br>
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