Chapter 10. The sed Editor
The sed “stream editor” is one of the most prominent Unix text processing tools. It is most often used for performing simple substitutions on data streams going through pipelines, but sed scripts can be written to do much more.
This chapter presents the following topics:
Conceptual overview of sed
Command-line syntax
Syntax of sed commands
Group summary of sed commands
Alphabetical summary of sed commands
Source code for GNU sed is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/. The Free Software Foundation’s home page for sed is http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/sed.html. For more information on sed, see sed & awk, listed in the Bibliography.
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