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The document discusses features of regular expressions, egrep, sed, and line addressing in sed. It notes that + and ? in egrep match one or more and zero or one occurrences respectively. Sed is a stream editor used for non-interactive operations with instructions combining an address and action. Addressing in sed can be by line number or pattern, and common actions include print (p) and quit (q).

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The document discusses features of regular expressions, egrep, sed, and line addressing in sed. It notes that + and ? in egrep match one or more and zero or one occurrences respectively. Sed is a stream editor used for non-interactive operations with instructions combining an address and action. Addressing in sed can be by line number or pattern, and common actions include print (p) and quit (q).

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Regular Expressions

egreps extended set includes two special characters - + and ?. They are often used in place of * to restrict the matching scope. + - matches one or more occurrences of the previous character. ? matches zero or one occurrence of the previous character. $ egrep true?man emp.lst

Regular Expressions
The |, ( and ) can be used to search for multiple patterns. $ egrep wood(house|cock) emp.lst sed is a multipurpose too which combines the work of several filters. Designed by Lee McMahon, it is derived from the ed line editor. sed is used to perform noniteractive operations.

sed: The Stream Editor


sed has numerous features almost bordering on a programming language but its functions have been taken over by perl. Everything in sed is an instruction. An instruction combines an address for selecting lines with an action to be taken on them: sed options address action file(s) The address and action are enclosed within single quotes.

sed: The Stream Editor


The components of a sed instruction are shown as below: sed 1,$ s/^bold/BOLD/g foo address action You can have multiple instructions in a single sed command, each with its own address and action components. Addressing in sed is done in two ways:
By line number (like 3,7p). By specifying a pattern (like /From:/p).

Line Addressing
In the first form, the address specifies either a single line or a set of two (3,7) to select a group of contiguous lines. The second one uses one or two patterns. In either case, the action (p, the print command) is appended to this address. You can simulate head -3 by the 3q instruction in which 3 is the address and q is the quit action.

Line Addressing
$ sed 3q emp.lst sed uses the p (print) command to print the output. $ sed 1,2p emp.lst By default, sed prints all lines on the standard output in addition to the lines affected by the action. So the addressed lines are printed twice.

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