Chapter 12. Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions with sed and awk
In the previous chapter, you learned about Linux system's startup, from power-on till user login, and how to customize a Linux system environment.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding regular expressions
- Stream editor (sed) for text processing
- Using awk for text processing
The basics of regular expressions
A sequence of characters that have certain patterns of text (with meta-characters), which will be searched from in a larger text or file is called regular expressions:
$ ll /proc | grep cpuinfo
In the preceding command, the grep
utility will search for the cpuinfo
text in all lines of input text and will print lines that have the cpuinfo
text.
The utilities ...
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