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GNU sed is the Free Software Foundation's version of the sed(1) editor. from Armin Wolfermann <armin@wolfermann.org> prodded by Stefan Sperling
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GNU sed is the Free Software Foundation's version of the sed(1) editor.
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GNU sed isn't really a true text editor or text processor. Instead, it
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is used to filter text, i.e., it takes text input and performs some
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operation (or set of operations) on it and outputs the modified text.
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Sed is typically used for extracting part of a file using pattern
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matching or substituting multiple occurrences of a string within a file.
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The sed binary is prefixed with the letter g to differentiate it from
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the standard application with the same name.
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