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CHANGED command 'l': customizable output width
NEW     command 'L': adds text formatting like "par" utility
NEW     option "-s":

http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/sed.shtml
"Largely outdated, but still useful for processing very large files.
 For smaller files (say up to 1M) perl is a better tool."
Say what?  ;-)

http://curt.rice.edu//sed.html
Introduction to Unix's SED editor
by F. Curtis Michel fcm@curt.rice.edu
Be prepared to download quite some
picture when looking at his homepage.  ;-)

http://packetstorm.securify.com/programming-tutorials/sed/
A collection of SED scripts, apparently.

Here are the homepages for these mailing lists which are both hosted by YahooGroups:

        SED-BR    Mailing List HomePage:
        http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/sed-br
        Maintainer:  Aurelio Marinho Jargas (aurelio@verde666.org)

        SED-USERS Mailing List HomePage:
        http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/sed-users
        Maintainer:  Sven Guckes (guckes-sed@math.fu-berlin.de)

            List owner: 
                          sed-users-owner@yahoogroups.com
            URL to this page:
                          http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sed-users

*The* SED FAQ [980508,990826,001124]

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/sed !

to check:

010207 [dead]   http://www.cornerstonemag.com/cornerstone/sed/sedfaq.html
010207 [dead]   http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/sedfaq.html
010207 [000718] http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~george/sed/sedfaq.html

sed . . . the stream editor [001124,010207]

http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/

A very informational site by the maintainer of the SED FAQ.

Author: Eric Pement pemente@northpark.edu

010207: Seems to have moved - or even killed! :-/

010207 http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/sed1line.txt "SED One-Liners"
010207 http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/bin/txt2html.sed
010207 http://mathssun5.lancs.ac.uk:2080/~maa036/GNU/GNUWeb/sed.html
010207 http://melmac.corp.harris.com/cgi-bin/man-pages?sed+1B

man sed

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/sed.html

"The Single UNIX ® Specification, Version 2 -- Copyright © 1997 The Open Group"

Here are some examples to problems where SED is not the right tool. There are other tools about which are designed for a purpose and you should use them, too!

Deleting newlines from a file

  tr -d \\012 < bar

Weeding mails with mawk

Links to other SED stuff

SED Documentation

Batch and Third-Party Programs - SED [001221,001230,010207]

SED scripts - in colorized text.

http://users.cybercity.dk/~bse26236/batutil/help/INDEX.HTM

http://users.cybercity.dk/~bse26236/batutil/help/SED.HTM#sed

Author: Benny Pedersen b.pedersen@get2net.dk

The SEDer's Grab Bag [980611,980720,990831,001127]

http://spazioweb.inwind.it/seders/

http://seders.icheme.org/ [obsolete]

"scripts, executables, HOWTOs, tips and all kinds of stuff"

Quite a few scripts - and some tutorials, too!

Also home of "Super SED" (ssed):

http://pcsiwa.rett.polimi.it/~paolob/seders/ssed/

Source archive and Windows binary available.

Maintainer: Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org

Custom SED [980527,010207]

http://www.ptug.org/sed/custom_sed.html

A proposal for a "Custom SED" - a new kind of SED that shall "always [be] capable of running existing sed scripts portably and efficiently. The changes should be portable to all contemporary Unixes and if the underlying GNU code permits, to the DOS/Windows environments."

Hosted by the "The Profitool User Group".

Fefe's tutorial on SED [...,010207]

http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/sed/tutorial.html

If you have never used sed and if you don't want to buy a book about it then you should read this short tutorial.

Author: Felix von Leitner leitner@math.fu-berlin.de

Misc

Dictionaries

Dictionaries are useful for spell checking and other things. Here are some sites:

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/dictionaries/DEC-collection

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/dictionaries

ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de//pub/unix/security/dictionaries/

FrameFree in Sed! [010207]

http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/framefree/sed.html

Modifying the Netscape binary with GNU sed to become "frame free".

Introduction to sed [010207]

http://www.is.noda.sut.ac.jp/isws/language/sed.html

Can't read it - it's in Japanese. Is this any good?

        Title:        Sed & Awk (Nutshell Handbook)
        Authors:      Dougherty, Dale / Robbins, Arnold 
        Publisher:    Oreilly & Associates
        Edition:      2nd
        ISBN:         1-56592-225-5
        Published:    March 1997
        Binding:      Paper
        Pages:        407

http://www.ora.com/catalog/sed2/
http://www.briansbooks.com/catalog/books/1565922255

        Title:        Sed & Awk Pocket Reference
        Authors:      Robbins, Arnold
        Publisher:    Oreilly & Associates
        ISBN:         1-56592-729-X
        Published:    January 2000
        Binding:      Paper

http://www.ora.com/catalog/sedawkrepr/
http://www.briansbooks.com/catalog/books/156592729X

        Title:        Unix Awk and Sed Programmer's Interactive Workbook
        Authors:      Patsis, Peter
        Publisher:    Prentice Hall Computer Books
        Edition:      Workbook
        ISBN:         0130826758
        Published:    December 1998
        Binding:      Paper

http://www.briansbooks.com/catalog/books/0130826758

OUT OF PRINT!
"sed&awk" by Dale Dougherty [1st Edition November 1990]
http://www.ora.com/catalog/sed/index.html

GNU sed 3.02 [010207]

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/sed/

http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu/sed/

http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu/sed/sed-3.02.tar.gz

GNU sed for HPUX [010207]

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/sed-3.02/

GNU sed of 1992-12-15 [010207]

http://www.winsite.com/info/pc/win3/programr/gnused.zip/

http://www.winsite.com/info/pc/win3/programr/gnused.zip/downl.html

Stone old sed for Windows?

u-sedit2.zip (95K, 1990-06-17) [010207]

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/u-sedit2.zip

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/garbo.uwasa.fi/editor/u-sedit2.zip

What does this contain?

Bitterberg, Tilmann tilmann@bitterberg.de [010304]

http://www.bitterberg.de/tilmann/sed-en.html (English)

http://www.bitterberg.de/tilmann/sed-de.html (German)

Scripts: Delete ads of maillists, convert Mail to HTML, convert Pine addresses to vim aliases, CallID to VBox, Index of Links in HTML page.

Chang, Yao-Jen changyj@rtfiber.com.tw [010207]

http://www.rtfiber.com.tw/~changyj/sed/

Topics: Get/work/replace qualified lines, work on a string, SED's commands, and Resources. (Colorful link buttons - a GIMP fan at work. ;-)

Jargas, Aurélio Marinho aurelio@verde666.org [010207,020307]

http://verde666.org/sed/

Topics: txt2sgml.sed, justify.sed, sed-3.02.80 (tar,rpm), Real Audio SED speechs, sed-HOWTO. all in Portuguese.

Guckes, Sven

http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/sed/

This page. :-)

• Describe how to edit replies to the maillist (remove ads from egroups etc)
• Describe how to get rid of yahoogroups signatures using procmail+sed

020409:
Problem I encountered when using SED:
Which version does my SED have?
neither "sed --version" nor "sed --help" works - damn!
"strings `which sed`" does not yield anything -
except some error message strings

Does my sed understand other pattern delimiters apart from '/'?
yes! :-)  example:   sed -e 's#/#-#g'

Does my sed understand "\t" to denote a TAB?
No. this means I have to use literal TABs in
my scripts.  I don't like this at all.   :-(


/bin/sed on Solaris - error messages:
  sed: command garbled: %s                 s/foo/bar  (no ending '/')
  Too much text: %s
  Label too long: %s
  No addresses allowed: %s
  Only one address allowed: %s
  Suffix too large - 512 max: %s
  SUNW_OST_OSCMD
  Cannot malloc space
  gne:f:
  Cannot open pattern-file: %s
  Too many {'s
  First RE may not be null
  Unrecognized command: %s
  Too many }'s
  Duplicate labels: %s
  Too many labels: %s
  Too many labels: %s
  First RE may not be null
  Too many files in w commands
  cannot open %s
  Too many files in w commands
  Cannot create %s
  Too many line numbers
  Undefined label: %s
  Cannot malloc space
  Can't open %s
  Too many appends after line %lld
  %lld
  %Too many reads after line%lld
  %sed: Memory allocation failed.
  %l

Does anyone have examples which trigger these error messages?
let me know!

URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/sed/
Created:     Sun Aug 18 18:18:18 CET 1996