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UNIX® Shells by Example, Third Edition
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UNIX® Shells by Example, Third Edition

by Ellie Quigley
October 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1040 pages
22h 50m
English
Pearson
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4.7. sed Scripting

A sed script is a list of sed commands in a file. To let sed know your commands are in a file, when invoking sed at the command line, use the -f option followed by the name of the sed script. Sed is very particular about the way you type lines into the script. There cannot be any trailing whitespace or text at the end of the command. If commands are not placed on a line by themselves, they must be terminated with a semicolon. A line from the input file is copied into the pattern buffer, and all commands in the sed script are executed on that line. After the line has been processed, the next line from the input file is placed in the pattern buffer, and all commands in the script are executed on that line. Sed gets “garbled” ...

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