Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:37:31 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sed howto Message-ID: <20051028153731.GA17232@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <4362409D.400@t-hosting.hu> References: <4362409D.400@t-hosting.hu>
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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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