LXer: Learn to use the Sed text editor
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Created for version 7 of AT[he]amp[/he]T's original Unix operating system, the*sed*command has been included with probably every Unix and Linux OS since. The*sed application is a*stream editor, and unlike a text editor it doesn't open a visual buffer into which a file's data is loaded for processing. Instead, it operates on a file, line by line, according to either a command typed into a terminal or a series of commands in a script.
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Created for version 7 of AT[he]amp[/he]T's original Unix operating system, the*sed*command has been included with probably every Unix and Linux OS since. The*sed application is a*stream editor, and unlike a text editor it doesn't open a visual buffer into which a file's data is loaded for processing. Instead, it operates on a file, line by line, according to either a command typed into a terminal or a series of commands in a script.
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