Sed 4.1.5 review

Sed is a streams editor, he isn't really a true text editor or text processor. Instead, it is used to filter text, i.e., it takes

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 780K Developer: Ken Pizzini and Paolo Bonzini

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Sed is a streams editor, he isn't really a true text editor or text processor.

Instead, it is used to filter text, i.e., it takes text input and 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 occurrences of a string within a file.

Installation:

The simplest way to compile this package is:

1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself.

Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.

2. Type `make' to compile the package.

3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with the package.

4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation.

5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came with the distribution.