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Batch and Third-Party Programs

Third-Party Programs (not from Microsoft), can add appreciated power to your Batch programming. For example the STRINGS.COM or SED.EXE, which are typically used for manipulation on text files. Notes: I will not directly mix up the pure DOS stuff with those third-party programs! So, I have separated this topic from the rest. Anyway, some users will not allow them self to use those third-party utilities. In addition, all over the place where it's possible, I will also suggest supplemental pure DOS solutions. Many descriptions are courtesy of Eric Pement (cornerstonemag.com) and are used with his permission. -Top- -Menu(11)- -Top-

SED

The file SED.EXE is possible not a file that you can find on your computer. But, if you have downloaded the "SED.EXE" and placed it, where your system can find it - (see PATH), then the SED command is available. Table of Contents 11.05 Count lines 11.10 Add (Insert) - Line numbers 11.15 - Appearance: - Blank lines 11.16 - Align 11.17 - Offset 11.18 - Commas 11.20 Substitution 11.30 Conversion - Join lines 11.32 - Reverse 11.34 - Capitalize 11.40 Printing - Lines - Absolute 11.42 - Relative 11.44 - Conditional: - Expression 11.45 - Match 11.46 - Quantity 11.49 - Paragraph 11.50 Deletion - Delete the last line of each paragraph 11.52 - Blank part of each line 11.54 - Duplicate lines 11.56 - Blank lines 11.60 Notes: - Typical use 11.65 - Special applications 11.70 - Use of '\t' in sed scripts 11.75 - Optimize for speed 11.80 - Versions of sed
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11.05 Count lines
                              #1          ##1
 sed -n "$=" #1>##1.tmp       aaa         4
                              bbb
 
                              ccc

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11.10 Insert line numbers

 # number each line left alignment. (See note on '\t'.)
 sed = #1 | sed "N;s/\n/\t/" >##1

 # number each line (right-aligned)
 sed = #1 | sed "N;s/^/     /;s/ *\(.\{6,\}\)\n/\1  /" >##2

 # number each not blank line
 sed "/./=" #1 | sed "/./N;s/\n/ /" >##3

            #1        ##1               ##2               ##3
            ===       -----------       -----------       -----
            aaa       1       aaa            1  aaa       1 aaa
            bbb       2       bbb            2  bbb       2 bbb
                      3                      3              
            ccc       4       ccc            4  ccc       4 ccc


 # Substitute with a line number. [Capitalize: Solution. January 18, 2000]

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11.15 Add blank lines

 # double space a file
 sed G

 # triple space a file
 sed "G;G"

 # add a blank line every 5 lines (after lines 5, 10, 15, 20, etc.)
 sed "n;n;n;n;G;"

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11.16 Align text

 # Align text flush right on a 50-column width.
 sed -e :a "s/^.\{1,49\}$/ &/;ta"

 Note:
 # The column width can't exceed more than 50 without the possibility of an
 # error message: 'sed: infinite branch loop at line x'

 # Center all text in the middle of a 50-column width.
 # In method 1, spaces are significant.
 # In method 2, spaces at the beginning of the line are discarded in
 # centering the line, and no trailing spaces is add to the end of lines.
 #
 sed -e :a "s/^.\{1,48\}$/ & /;ta" #                     # method 1.
 sed -e :a -e "s/^.\{1,48\}$/ &/;ta" -e "s/\( *\)\1/\1/" # method 2: ^Note.

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11.17 Offset

 # Insert 5 blank spaces at beginning of each line (make page offset)
 sed "s/^/     /"

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11.18 Add Commas

 # Add commas to numeric strings, changing "1234567" to "1,234,567"
 sed -e :a "s/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta"

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11.20 Substitution

 # substitute "foo" with "bar"
 sed "s/foo/bar/" #           # replaces 1st instance on each line
 sed "s/foo/bar/4" #          # replaces 4th instance on each line
 sed "s/foo/bar/g" #          # replaces ALL instances

 sed "/foo/s/foo/bar/g" #     # same but executes more quickly
 sed "/baz/s/foo/bar/g" #     # ONLY for lines which contain "baz"

 sed "/baz/!s/foo/bar/g" #    # EXCEPT for lines which contain "baz"

 # substitute "1" with "L", "2" with "i" and so on...
 sed "y/1234/List/" #         # replaces ALL instances

 # substitute only for lines which contain foo_0
 sed "/foo_0/ { s/foo_1/bar_1/g; s/foo_2/bar_2/g; }"

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11.30 Join lines

 sed "$!N;s/\n//" #                      # join pairs of lines side-by-side
 sed :a;$!N;s/\n//;ta; INFILE > OUTFILE  # join all lines (use GNU SED)

 # if a line ends with a K ............. then:
 sed -e :a -e "/K$/N;s/\n//;ta" #        # append the next line to it
 sed -e :a -e "/K$/N;s/\n/ /;ta" #       # - separate with 1 space
 sed -e :a -e "/K$/N;s/.\n//;ta" #       # - delete the K

 # if a line begins with a K ........... then:
 sed -e :a -e "$!N;s/\nK/K/;ta" -e "P;D" # append it to the previous line
 sed -e :a -e "$!N;s/\nK/ /;ta" -e "P;D" # - replace the K with 1 space


@Echo off Echo abc~123~def~456~ghi~789|sed "s/~/\n/g">#1 Rem Wrote a new file #1. Now use it as input for testing some SED syntax: sed "$!N;s/\n//" #1>##1 sed "$!N;s/\n/ /" #1>##2 sed "$!N;s/\n..//" #1>##3 sed "$!N;s/\n[^ ]*//" #1>##4 sed "$!N;s/\n..//;s/^..//" #1|sed =|sed "$!N;s/\n/ /">##5 Rem See the five output files. (Pfe32 is just an editor) For %%v in ( Pause Pfe32 Exit ) do %%v ##1 ##2 ##3 ##4 ##5 sed -n "$!N;s/^\([^ ]* \)\(.*\)\(\n\)\([^ ]* \)\(.*\)$/\2\5\3\1\4/; G;s/^\(.*\n\)\(.*\)\n\(.*\)$/\1\3\2/;s/^\(.*\n\)\([^ ]* \)/\2\1/;P; s/^.*\n//;h" #{x}>##{x+3} #1 #2 abc 1 abc 123 2 123 def 3 def 456 4 456 ghi 5 ghi 789 6 789 ##1 ##2 ##3 ##4 ##5 ------ ------- ---- --- ---- #1 abc123 abc 123 abc3 abc 1 c3 def456 def 456 def6 def 2 f6 ghi789 ghi 789 ghi9 ghi 3 i9 ---------- ----------- -------- --------- -------- #2 1 abc2 123 1 abc 2 123 1 abc123 1 abc 123 1 abc123 3 def4 456 3 def 4 456 3 def456 3 def 456 2 def456 5 ghi6 789 5 ghi 6 789 5 ghi789 5 ghi 789 3 ghi789 <<>> -Top- 11.32 Reverse # reverse order of lines sed "1!G;h;$!d" # # method 1 sed -n "1!G;h;$p" # # method 2 # reverse each character on the line sed "/\n/!G;s/\(.\)\(.*\n\)/&\2\1/;//D;s/.//" <<>> -Top- 11.34 Capitalize @Echo off Rem Under Construction. Rem Goto/See •Solution. January 18, 2000• Set p1=s/$/aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ/; Set p2=s/\([a-z]\)\(.*\1\)\(.\)/\3\2\3/; Rem Set p3=s/aA[b-zB-Z]*$//; Set p3=s/.\{52\}$//; Sed "%p1% %p2% %p3%" #1>##1 For %%v in (p1 p2 p3) do Set %%v= For %%v in (Pause Edit Cls Exit) do %%v ##1 #1 ##1 abc def Abc def Ghi jkl GHi jkl 3: end of file 3: End of file <<>> -Top- 11.40 Print line(s) - Absolute # beginning at line 7, print every 4th line sed -n "7,${p;n;n;n;}" # print line number 7 sed 7!d # # method 1 sed 7q;d # # method 2 sed -n 7p # # method 3 # print lines 3-8 (inclusive) sed 3,8!d # # method 1 sed -n 3,8p # # method 2 # print all except lines 3-8 sed 3,8d # print lines 9-EOF (inclusive) sed 9,$!d <<>> -Top- 11.42 Print line(s) - Relative sed q # # print the first line sed 9q # # print the first 9 lines sed 1,9d # # print all except the first 9 sed -e :a "$q;N;10,$D;ba" # # print the last 9 lines sed -e :a -e "$d;N;2,9ba" -e "P;D" ## print all except the last 9 sed -n -e :a -e "1,9!{P;N;D;};N;ba" # same sed "$!N;$!D" # # print the last 2 lines sed "$!d" # # print the last line sed -n "$p" # same sed "n;d" # # print all except every 2th line <<>> -Top- Print line(s) - Conditional: 11.44 - Expression # print section of file from regular expression to the end of file sed -n "/Regexp/,$p" # print section of file between two regular expressions (inclusive) sed -n "/Regexp_1/,/Regexp_2/p" # print all except section between 2 regular expressions sed "/Regexp_1/,/Regexp_2/d" 11.45 - Match # print only lines which match regexp sed "/AA/!d; /BB/!d; /CC/!d" # # AA, BB and CC (in any order) sed "/AA.*BB.*CC/!d" # # AA, BB and CC (in that order) sed -e "/AA/b" -e "/BB/b" -e "/CC/b" -e d ## AA, BB or CC sed "/AA/!d" # # AA sed -n "/AA/p" # same # print 1 line of context before and after regexp with line number sed -n -e "/AA/{=;x;1!p;g;$!N;p;D;}" -e h # print only lines which do NOT match regexp AA sed "/AA/d" # # method 1 sed -n "/AA/!p" # # method 2 11.46 - Quantity # print only lines of 65 characters or longer sed -n "/^.\{65\}/p" # print only lines of less than 65 characters. sed "/^.\{65\}/d" # # method 1 sed -n "/^.\{65\}/!p" # # method 2 <<>> -Top- 11.49 Paragraph # print paragraph if it contains AA (blank line(s) separate paragraphs) sed -e "/./{H;$!d;}" -e "x;/AA/!d;" # print paragraph if it contains AA and BB and CC (in any order) sed -e "/./{H;$!d;}" -e "x;/AA/!d;/BB/!d;/CC/!d" # print paragraph if it contains AA or BB or CC sed -e "/./{H;$!d;}" -e "x;/AA/b" -e "/BB/b" -e "/CC/b" -e d <<>> -Top- 11.50 Deletion # delete the last line of each paragraph sed -n "/^$/{p;h;};/./{x;/./p;}" 11.52 Delete blank part of each line sed "s/^[ \t]*//" # # DEL leading blank (spaces, tabs) from FRONT sed "s/[ \t]*$//" # # DELete trailing blank from the END sed "s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//" # delete both leading and trailing blank 11.54 Delete duplicate lines sed "$!N;/^\(.*\)\n\1$/!P;D" # # consecutive lines. sed -n "G;s/\n/&&/;/^\([ -~]*\n\).*\n\1/d;s/\n//;h;P" # nonconsecutive: # some time it fails 11.56 Delete blank lines sed "/^$/d" # # delete ALL blank lines sed "/./!d" # # same sed "/./,$!d" # # DEL leading blank lines at TOP of file sed -e :a "/^\n*$/N;/\n$/ba" ## DEL trailing blank lines at the EOF sed "/^$/N;/\n$/N;//D" # delete CONSECUTIVE blank lines except the first 2 # in each sequence. DEL all blank lines at the EOF. sed "/^$/N;/\n$/D" # # delete CONSECUTIVE blank lines except the first 1 # in each sequence. DEL all blank lines at the EOF. sed "/./,/^$/!d" # # DEL all blank lines at the TOF: (Top-Of-File). <<>> -Top- NOTES: 11.60 Typical use Sed takes one or more editing commands and applies all of them, in sequence, to each line of input. After all the commands have been applied to the first input line, that line is output and a second input line is taken for processing, and the cycle repeats. The preceding examples assume that input comes from the standard input device (i.e, the console, normally this will be piped input). One or more filenames can be appended to the command line if the input does not come from stdin. Output is sent to stdout (the screen). Thus: sed "10q" filename sed "10q" filename > newfile # redirects output to disk <<>> -Top- 11.65 Special applications (PS. I have not tested all of these) # remove nroff overstrikes (char, backspace) from man pages. sed "s/.`echo \\\b`//g" # double quotes required for Unix environment sed "s/.^H//g" # in bash/tcsh, press Ctrl-V and then Ctrl-H sed "s/.\x08//g" # hex expression for sed v1.5 # get Usenet/e-mail message header sed "/^$/q" # deletes everything after first blank line # get Usenet/e-mail message body sed "1,/^$/d" # deletes everything up to first blank line # get Subject header, but remove initial "Subject: " portion sed "/^Subject: */!d; s///;q" # get return address header sed "/^Reply-To:/q; /^From:/h; /./d;g;q" # parse out the address proper. Pulls out the e-mail address by itself # from the 1-line return address header (see preceding script) sed "s/ *(.*)//; s/>.*//; s/.*[:<] *//" # add a leading angle bracket and space to each line (quote a message) sed "s/^/> /" # delete leading angle bracket & space from each line (unquote a message) sed "s/^> //" # remove most HTML tags (accommodates multiple-line tags) sed -e :a -e "s/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba" # extract multi-part uuencoded binaries, removing extraneous header # info, so that only the uuencoded portion remains. Files passed to # sed must be passed in the proper order. Version 1 can be entered # from the command line; version 2 can be made into an executable # Unix shell script. (Modified from a script by Rahul Dhesi.) # sed "/^end/,/^begin/d" file1 file2 ... fileX | uudecode # zip up each .TXT file individually, deleting the source file and # setting the name of each .ZIP file to the basename of the .TXT file # (under DOS: the "dir /b" switch returns bare filenames in all caps). # echo @Echo off> zipup.bat Dir /b *.txt | sed "s/^\(.*\)\.TXT/pkzip -mo \1 \1.TXT/" >>zipup.bat <<>> -Top- 11.70 Use of '\t' in sed scripts For clarity in documentation, we have used the expression '\t' to indicate a tab character (0x09) in the scripts. However, most versions of sed do not recognize the '\t' abbreviation, so when typing these scripts from the command line, you should press the TAB key instead. '\t' is supported as a regular expression metacharacter in awk, perl, and in some implementations of sed. <<>> -Top- 11.75 Optimize for speed sed "s/foo/bar/g" filename # standard replace command sed "/foo/s/foo/bar/g" filename # executes more quickly On line selection or deletion in which you only need to output lines from the first part of the file, a "quit" command (q) in the script will drastically reduce processing time for large files. Thus: sed -n "45,50p" filename # print line nos. 45-50 of a file sed -n "51q;45,50p" filename # same, but executes much faster <<>> -Top- 11.80 Versions of sed Versions of sed do differ, and some slight syntax variation is to be expected. In particular, most do not support the use of labels (:name) or branch instructions (b,t) within editing commands, except at the end of those commands. We have used the syntax which will be portable to most users of sed, even though the more popular "GNU versions" of sed allow a more succinct syntax. sed15/DOS..: "ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/sed15x.zip" sed15/Win9x: "www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/sed15exe.zip". Same as below: I used "sed15.exe" renamed to "C:\Windows\Command\Sed.exe" but it's now renamed to "Old sed.exe" (GNU SED is better).
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