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.
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.
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
- Preface
- Introduction
- In-place file editing
- Selective editing
- BRE/ERE Regular Expressions
- Flags
- Shell substitutions
- z, s and f command line options
- append, change, insert
- Adding content from file
- Control structures
- Processing lines bounded by distinct markers
- Gotchas and Tricks
- Further Reading
- GNU sed documentation - manual and examples
- stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange - for getting answers to pertinent questions on
bash,sedand other commands - tex.stackexchange - for help on
pandocandtexrelated questions - Cover image
- 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.
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