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| | Linux/Unix Text Processing Tools | Linux Magazine |
 | | Now that we've messed around with cat, cut, and grep, let's check out another old-school Unix text-tool -- sed, the so-called "stream editor." Sed is a very complicated and multi-functional tool. |
 | | Still, the concept of how sed works is fairly straightforward; generally, it takes an input stream, modifies it by your rules, and creates output. |
 | | Tie that together with grep, cut, cat, and redirection and you start to see the power of all these tools. |
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