Mac OS X in a Nutshell

Name

sed

Synopsis

sed [options] [files]

Streams editor. Edits one or more files without user interaction. For more information on sed, see sed & awk, Second Edition (O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997). The -e and -f options may be provided multiple times, and they may be used with each other.

Options

-a

Treat all files as text and compare them.

-e `instruction'

Apply the editing instruction to the files.

-f script

Apply the set of instructions from the editing script.

-n

Suppress default output.