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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
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Subject: Re: WANTED: A GOOD sed tutorial
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Date: 10 Dec 90 19:51:54 GMT
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In <109974@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>In article <9012061639.AA15782@lilac.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:
>>I am in search of a sed tutorial...

>Get the O'Reilly book.

>--tom
>--
>Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
>"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
> to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me

I'm not sure which O'reilly book Tom is referring to here,
probably the Nutshell one.

Another excellent discussion of sed is in 'UNIX Text Processing'
by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'reilly (same one).  This is in the
Hayden Books UNIX System library number 046291.  There are also
excellent presentations on vi, awk, tbl, pic, troff, and how to
use these tools together.

I'm somewhat surprised Tom didn't refer you to perl which I find
much easier to understand than sed when it comes to multi-line
editing.

Bill.
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