February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1440 pages
30h 42m
English
![]() | Most of the editing performed on UNIX systems is done with vi. I have devoted a chapter to vi in this book, because of its prominence as a UNIX editor. Many times, we don't have the luxury of invoking vi when we need to edit a file. You may be writing a shell program or piping information between processes and need to edit in a non-interactive manner. sed can help here. Its name comes from stream editor, and it's a tool for filtering text files. |
You can specify the name of the file you wish to edit with sed or it takes its input from standard input. sed reads one line at a time and performs the editing you specify to each line. You can specify ...
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