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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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
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Book's at www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf
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