Sed howto

[Denny White]

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On Oct 28 Bill Campbell contributed the following:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005, Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking for a good sed howto that can be useful for contributing to
>> ports collection. Replacing text is I'm especially interested in.
>> Besides, could somebody explain me, when we use USE_REINPLACE= YES and
>> ${REINPLACE_CMD}, and when we use just ${SED}?
>
> It isn't a HOWTO, but the best sed documentation I've ever read is in the
> book ``Unix Text Processing'' by Dougherty and O'Reilly.  I think it's out
> of print, but you can download it in PDF format from O'Reilly for free.  It
> also has excellent documentation on quite a few other *nix utilities, and
> is one of those books that I think should be on every *nix hackers
> bookshelf along with Kernighan and Pike's ``Unix Programming Environment''.
>
> Bill
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Book's at www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf

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