HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

sed

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 ...