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| author | grant <grant@pkgsrc.org> | 2003-06-13 23:54:01 +0000 |
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| committer | grant <grant@pkgsrc.org> | 2003-06-13 23:54:01 +0000 |
| commit | c483c2961a3c32c4bc0384e58d5915ccc93e88b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 414ae398c36c7a31080969cde23a2b26a13b57f3 /textproc/gsed | |
| parent | 14a4780869897eacc621770aaf91f46111988d9d (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-c483c2961a3c32c4bc0384e58d5915ccc93e88b6.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/textproc/gsed/DESCR b/textproc/gsed/DESCR index a7349324a0a..19c407beb89 100644 --- a/textproc/gsed/DESCR +++ b/textproc/gsed/DESCR @@ -1 +1,8 @@ -This is GNU implementation of the POSIX stream editor `sed'; see sed(1). +GNU implementation of the POSIX stream editor `sed'. + +Sed (streams editor) isn't really a true text editor or text +processor. Instead, it is used to filter text, i.e., it takes text +input and performs some operation (or set of operations) on it and +outputs the modified text. Sed is typically used for extracting part +of a file using pattern matching or substituting multiple occurances +of a string within a file. |