Chapter 10. The sed EditorThe sed "stream editor" is one of the most prominent text-processing tools on Unix and Linux. 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:
The version of sed provided with Linux systems is the GNU version written by the Free Software Foundation; its home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/sed.html. For more information on sed, see sed & awk (O'Reilly). |