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sed: stream editor (cont)

The editing commands are very powerful and subsume the actions of many of the filters looked at so far.

In addition, sed can:

  • partition lines based on patterns rather than columns
  • extract ranges of lines based on patterns or line numbers
Option -n (no printing):
  • applies all editing commands as normal
  • displays no output, unless p appended to edit command