Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:29:24 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed and newlines Message-ID: <36F0FFB4.9EFDDF15@uk.radan.com> References: <199903172339.SAA06674@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19990318122811.11031.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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Greg Black wrote:
>
> the man page, which is one of the great masterpieces of obscurity[1].
>
[....]
> [1] How many people understood what they could do with "hold"
> spaces and "pattern" spaces and how to shuffle stuff between
> them on their first reading of the sed man page? And how
> many then found they didn't understand it after all when
> they tried to make it work?
>
Which probably explains why O'Reilly make a profit from a 400+ page
book covering only sed and awk.
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