On 5/14/07, Peter Valchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> GNU sed is the Free Software Foundation's version of the sed(1) editor.
>
> GNU sed 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 occurrences of a string within a file.
>
> The sed binary is prefixed with the letter g to differentiate it from
> the standard application with the same name.
And what/who needs this?
Sorry, but, is that question relevant? I mean, shoudn't the ports tree
have all the programs it can? :S
