Name
n
Synopsis
[address1
[,address2
]]n
Read the next line of input into pattern space. The current
line is sent to standard output, and the next line becomes the
current line. Control passes to the command following n
instead of resuming at the top of the
script.
Example
In DocBook/XML, titles follow section tags. Suppose you are
using a convention where each opening section tag is on a line by
itself, with the title on the following line. To print all the
section titles, invoke this script with sed -n
:
/<sect[1-4]/{ n p }
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