sed — Stream Editor

Synopsis

/usr/bin/sed [-n] script [file...] 
/usr/bin/sed [-n][-e script]...[-f script-file]... [file...] 
/usr/xpg4/bin/sed [-n] script [file...] 
/usr/xpg4/bin/sed [-n][-e script]...[-f script-file]... [file...] 

Description

The sed command is a noninteractive stream editor that reads one or more text files, makes editing changes according to a script of editing commands, and writes the results to standard output. sed obtains the script from either the script operand string or a combination of the option-arguments from the -e script and -f script-file options.

sed is a text editor. It cannot edit binary files or files containing ASCII null (\0) characters or very long lines.

Options

-e script script is an edit command ...

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