A Practical Guide to LinuxR Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
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Chapter 13. The sed Editor
IN THIS CHAPTER Syntax 564 Arguments 564 Options 564 Editor Basics 565 Addresses 565 Instructions 566 Control Structures 567 The Pattern Space and the Hold Space 568 Examples 568 The sed (stream editor) utility is a batch (noninteractive) editor. It transforms an input stream that can come from a file or standard input. It is frequently used as a filter in a pipe. Because it makes only one pass through its input, sed is more efficient than an interactive editor such as ed. This chapter describes GNU sed. |
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