While we ve only scratched the surface of text processing with sed in this short introduction, we ve seen some of the power provided by this little utility. We took a quick tour of regular expressions and their use in sed , as well as the use of numerical and pattern-based ranges to restrict sed s processing. We then reviewed some of the most-used sed commands, including substitution, printing, deleting, and transforming. We ended with a quick discussion of the use of the hold buffer, which gives sed the capability of memory.