Sed

Sed - A stream-oriented non-interactive text editor

Takes text input, performs some operation (or set of operations) on it and outputs the modified text. Sed is typically used for extracting part of a file using pattern matching or substituting multiple occurances of a string within a file.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/sed.html
Source tarball	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sed/sed-4.1.1.tar.gz

Version 4.1.1 (stable) released on 2004-07-06

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual included; User manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html

Support contacts

Announce News	gnu.announce
Help List	<sed-users@yahoogroups.com>
Help News	gnu.utils.help
Bug List	<ken@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Developers	Jay Fenlason <hack@gnu.org> Tom Lord <lord@gnu.org> Ken Pizzini <ken@gnu.org> Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Related programs	Textutils

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-01
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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