Unix - Filters/Editors

Day 3.
Editor/Filters.
Name of
Ananthi Murugesan
presentation
• Company name

Road Map

Vi editor

Filters and Other commands

Standard I/O Redirection

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Author :- Ananthi Murugesan

Module 1
vi Editor



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Objectives
Upon completing this module you should be able to understand the
following:
 What Is vi?
 Starting and Ending a vi Session
 Cursor Control Commands
 Input Mode: i, a, O, o
 Deleting Text: x, dw, dd, dG
 Copying, moving and changing Text
 Searching for Text: /, n, N

 Find and Replace



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What Is vi?
• A screen-oriented text editor
•

Included with most UNIX system distributions

•

Command driven

•

Categories of commands include

General administration


Cursor movement



Insert text



Delete text



Paste text



Modify text


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Starting and Ending a vi Session
vi [filename] Start a vi edit session of file
Example:
$ vi testfile
- If the file doesn’t exist, it will be created
- Otherwise vi will open the existing file

All modifications are made to the copy of the file brought into memory.
Commands

Description

:wq or :x or <shift-zz>

write and quit

:w

write

:q

quit

:q!

Quit without saving



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Cursor Control Commands
1G
<ctrl-b>
H
k
<up-arrow>

0
b,B
h
<left-arrow>

$
w,W
l
<right-arrow>

<down-arrow>
j
L
<ctrl-f>
G



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Input Mode: i, a, O, o

i will insert character at the present cursor position
I will insert character at the beginning of the line
a will append character at the present cursor position
A will append character at the end of the line

o will insert a blank line below
O will insert a blank line above



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Deleting Text: x, dw, dd, dG
x

deletes the current character

dw

deletes the current word

dd

deletes the current line

dG

delete all lines to end of file, including current line.

With any of these you can prefix a number

Example: 3dd will delete 3 lines

d$

to delete to the end of the line

d0

to delete to the start of the line

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Copying, moving and changing Text
yy

copy the line

yw

copy the word

p will paste the yanked lines below

dw

cut the word

P will paste the yanked lines above

dd

cut the line

r

will overwrite the current character

R

will replace all text on the right of the cursor position

cw

will replace only the current word



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Searching for Text: /, n, N

/director will locate for the first occurrence of the
pattern ‘director’

n to locate the next occurrence
N to locate the previous occurence



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Find and Replace
To find and replace the word director with member :
:1,$s/director/member/g
1,$ represents all lines in the file

g makes it truly global. g will ensure that all
occuences in each line is replaced. Without g only the
first occurrence of each line will be replaced.



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Module 2
Filters & other commands



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Objectives
Upon completing this module you should be able to understand the following:
•

grep, sort, find ,cut , tr

•

ftp

•

paste command

•

split command

•

uniq command

•

diff(Differential file comparator) Command

•

cmp command

•

file command

•

tar (tape archive program)

•

Restoring Files


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grep
Search for lines matching specified pattern
syntax:
grep [options] pattern [file1 file2 …..]
Example:
emp.dat
Robin

Bangalore

John

Chennai

Rina

Bangalore

$ grep Bangalore emp.dat
Robin

Bangalore

Rina

Bangalore


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grep with Regular Expressions
grep ‘regular_expression’ file

Valid metacharacters
.

Any single character

*

Zero or more occurences of the preceding character

[aA]

Enumeration: a or A

[a-f]

Any one of the characters in the range of a through f

^a

Any lines that start with a

z$

Any lines that end with z


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grep options
-v

print lines that do not match

-c

print only a count of matching lines

-l

print only the names of the files with matching lines

-n

number the matching lines

-i

ignore the case of letters when making comparisons

-w

do a whole word search



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sort command
The sort command sorts lines and writes the result to standard output:

$ sort [ -t delimiter] [+field[.column]] [options]

Options:
-d
sorts in dictionary order. Only letters, digits and spaces are
considered in comparisons
-r

reverses the order of the specified sort

-n

sorts numeric fields in arithmetic value



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sort examples
$ cat animals
dog.2
cat.4
elephant.10
rabbit.7
$ sort animals
cat.4
dog.2
elephant.10
rabbit.7
$ cat animals | sort +0.1
rabbit.7
cat.4
elephant.10
dog.2
$ cat animals | sort -t. -n +1
dog.2
cat.4
rabbit.7
elephant.10



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find command
Search one or more directory structures for files that meet certain specified
criteria
Display the names of matching files or execute commands against those files
find path expression
Examples:
$ find / -name file1
---search for files in whole system with name
file1
$ find / -user user1 –exec rm { } ; ---search for the
files owned
by user1 and delete them
$ find / -user user1 –ok rm { } ;
---search for the
files owned by user1 and delete them
interactively



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find options
-type

f
d

ordinary file
directory

-size

+n
-n
n

larger than "n" blocks
smaller than "n" blocks
equal to "n" blocks

-mtime

+x
-x

modified more than "x" days ago
modified less than "x" days ago

-perm

onum
mode

access permissions match "onum"
access permissin match "mode"

-user

user1

finds files owned by "user1"

-o

logical "or"

-newer

ref

searches for files that are newer than the
reference file.



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tr command
Used to substitute the values

tr [a-z] [A-Z]

will convert each small letter to caps

cat test | tr [a-z] [A-Z] will convert the small letters to caps in display
tr –s “ “

will squeeze multiple space occurences of space into one


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ftp
The ftp Command Syntax :
$ ftp hostname
get
put
mget
mput
cd
lcd
ls
?
help command
bye

Gets a file from the remote
computer.
Sends a local file to the remote system
get multiple files from the remote system
Sends multiple files to the remote system
changes the directory in the remote system
changes the directory in the local system
Lists files on the remote computer.
Lists all ftp commands
Display a very brief help message for command.
Exits ftp.



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The paste command
Used to paste files vertically
eg. file1

file2

paste file1 file2

name

address

age

name

address age

ram

mvm

29

ram

mvm

29

raghu

rjnagar

25

raghu

rjnagar

25

(To rearrange f1 f2 f3 to f3 f2 f1, cut each field,put into file then paste)
By default paste uses the tab character for pasting files, but –d to specify one
eg. paste –d | file1 file2
name

address|age

ram

mvm|29

raghu

rjnagar|25



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The split command
Used to split up the files:

This command breaks up the input into several equi line segments.
by defalult, split breaks a file into 1000 line pieces(or whatever is left)
split creates files like xaa,xab,xac …. xaz then xba, xbb …. xbz and
… xzz . So there can be 676(26*26) files
split –5 chap

(here the chap file is broken into files of 5 lines size)

split chap small (the file names will be smallaa,smallab …. smallzz)



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The diff(Differential file comparator)
Command

Analyzes text files
Reports the differences between files

diff [-options] file1 file2



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The cmp command
$ cmp names names.old
names names.old differ: byte 6, line 1

$cmp -l names names.old
6 12 151
7 102 156
8 157 145
...
...
...
cmp: EOF on names



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The file command
The file command tells the type of file

Example:
$ file /usr/bun/vi
/usr/bin/vi:executable (RISC system/6000) or object module
$ file c1
c1:
ascii text
$ file /usr/bin
/usr/bin: directory



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tar (tape archive program)

create a disk archive that contains a group of files or an entire directory
structure
-c
-x
-t
-f

copy
extract
list
[only one can be present at a time]
to specify the device name

tar [–]cvf etc.tar /etc/*



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Restoring Files
tar –xvf tarfile

Example:
tar –xvf etc.tar
selective extraction
tar –xvf etc.tar /etc/passwd
tar –tvf etc.tar will display the archive



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Module 3
Standard I/O Redirection



Objectives
Upon completing this module you should be able to understand the following:
 The Standard Files

 Input Redirection
 Output Redirection
 Creating a file with cat
 Error Redirection
 Combined Redirection
 Split Outputs



The Standard Files
Standard Input File (0)

Keyboard

Standard Output File (1)

Monitor

Standard Error File (2)

Monitor

operators:
standard input redirection

0< or <

standard output redirection

1> or >

standard Error redirection

2>



Input Redirection
Default standard input
$ mail user1
subject: Hi

Test mail
<ctrl-d>

Redirect Input from a file: <
$ mail user1 < letter



Output Redirection
Default standard output:
$ ls
f1
f2
f3
Redirect output from a file: >
$ ls > ls.out
Redirecting and appending output to a file: >>
$ who >> who.out



Creating a file with cat
While normally used to list the contents of files, using cat with
redirection can be used to create a file
$ ls
file1

file2

file3

Using redirection
$ cat > newfile
file created by using the output redirection
<ctrl-d>
$ ls
file1

file2

file3

newfile



Combined Redirection
Combined redirects:
$ command > outfile 2>errfile <infile
$ command >> appendfile 2 >> errorfile <infile
Association Examples:
$ command > outfile 2 >&1

note: This is NOT the same as above
$ command 2>&1 >outfile



Split Outputs

The tee command reads standard input and sends the data to
both standard output and a file.

Example:
$ ls | tee ls.save | wc –l



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