sed

Sed stands for screen editor and is a power tool for UNIX system programmers who create and modify text files. Most of the tasks you can do with sed can be done interactively with a text editor, but sed can be a real time-saver.

URLs:

the Gnu site

Several versions of sed are available from this ftp site at MIT.

sed &awk

O'Reilly & Associates, the well known technical publishers, have descriptions of their books on-line, as well as tables of contents and brief (positive) reviews.

W3E References:

awk

UNIX

Print References:

• sed & awk by Dale Dougherty. O'Reilly. 1990.