Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:02:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White <dennyboy@cableone.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sed howto Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.64.0510292358330.15760@badboybox.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20051028153731.GA17232@alexis.mi.celestial.com> References: <4362409D.400@t-hosting.hu> <20051028153731.GA17232@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-798497508-1130648529=:15760 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 28 Bill Campbell contributed the following: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005, K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1bor 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=3D 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 ou= t > 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 > -- > INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1= 676 > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > > Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich > countries to rich people in poor countries -- Douglas Casey > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > Book's at www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf Self-Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (OpenBSD) iD8DBQFDZFPay0Ty5RZE55oRAo4yAKCDsEOm0wsIxtqAF7sgUZA3ArbobACggFEG 1Hon2H3q/FGMv4RcR//X6bM=3D =3DdEUI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0-798497508-1130648529=:15760--
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