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Utility:Search/Replace:Regular expression:Command line: What is SED? [Linux/Microsoft Windows/SubML]
Nov 19th, 2006 03:18
Knud van Eeden,
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Utility:Search/Replace:Regular expression:Command line: What is SED?
[Linux/Microsoft Windows/SubML]
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SED = 'S'tream 'ED'itor
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SED is written by the late Lee E. McMahon in 1973.
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A brief history of sed's origins may be found in an early history of
the Unix tools, at
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09
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Sed is a program with the only goal to execute bulk search-and-replace
actions on any ASCII file, according to script files using UNIX regular
expressions.
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Originally written and designed for Unix, sed has been ported to
MS-DOS, Windows, Linux, and other operating systems.
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Sed is a non-interactive editor that works from a command line.
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To run sed from the Microsoft MSDOS command line
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sed "here comes your sed commands" yourinput.file >youroutputfile
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To run sed with a .sed script from the Microsoft MSDOS command line,
use
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sed -f yourscript.sed yourinput.file >youroutputfile
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Example of a .sed file with regular expression search/replace
instructions:
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/^$/d
/<html>/d
/<body>/d
/<\/body>/d
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Internet: see also:
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[Internet: source: http://www.google.com search for 'sed what is sed':
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sedfaq2.html#s2.1]
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Download SED version for Microsoft Windows
[Internet: source: http://www.google.com search for 'sed: what is
sed': http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/]
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[Internet: source: http://www.google.com search for 'subml':
http://www.faqs.org/docs/electric/Devel/markup.html]
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Search/Replace: Regular Expression: Links: Can you give an overview of
links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/34985/fid/828
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