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Concept Index

This is a general index of all issues discussed in this manual, with the exception of the SED commands and command-line options.

a

  • Adding a block of text after a line
  • Address, as a regular expression
  • Address, last line
  • Address, numeric
  • Addresses, in SED scripts
  • Addtional reading about SED
  • Append hold space to pattern space
  • Append next input line to pattern space
  • Append pattern space to hold space

    • b

  • Backreferences, in regular expressions
  • Branch to a label, if s/// succeeded
  • Branch to a label, unconditionally
  • Buffer spaces, pattern and hold
  • Bugs, reporting

    • c

  • Case-insensitive matching
  • Caveat -- #n on first line
  • Caveat -- p command and -n flag
  • Command groups
  • Comments, in scripts
  • Conditional branch
  • Copy hold space into pattern space
  • Copy pattern space into hold space

    • d

  • Delete first line from pattern space
  • Deleting lines

    • e

  • Exchange hold space with pattern space
  • Excluding lines

    • f

  • Files to be processed as input
  • Flow of control in scripts

    • g

  • Global substitution
  • GNU extensions, I modifier, GNU extensions, I modifier
  • GNU extensions, n~m addresses
  • GNU extensions, unlimited line length
  • Goto, in scripts
  • Grouping commands

    • h

  • Hold space, appending from pattern space
  • Hold space, appending to pattern space
  • Hold space, copy into pattern space
  • Hold space, copying pattern space into
  • Hold space, definition
  • Hold space, exchange with pattern space

    • i

  • Insert text from a file
  • Inserting a block of text before a line

    • l

  • Labels, in scripts
  • Last line, selecting
  • Line number, print
  • Line selection
  • Line, selecting by number
  • Line, selecting by regular expression match
  • Line, selecting last
  • List pattern space

    • n

  • Next input line, append to pattern space
  • Next input line, replace pattern space with

    • p

  • Parenthesized substrings
  • Pattern space, definition
  • Portability, comments
  • Portability, line length limitations
  • Portability, p command and -n flag
  • Print first line from pattern space
  • Print line number
  • Print selected lines
  • Print unambiguous representation of pattern space
  • Printing text after substitution

    • q

  • Quitting

    • r

  • Range of lines
  • Read next input line
  • Read text from a file
  • Replace hold space with copy of pattern space
  • Replace pattern space with copy of hold space
  • Replace specific input lines
  • Replacing all text matching regexp in a line
  • Replacing only nth match of regexp in a line
  • Replacing text matching regexp
  • Replacing text matching regexp, options

    • s

  • Script structure
  • Script, from a file
  • Script, from command line
  • SED program structure
  • Selected lines, replacing
  • Selecting lines to process
  • Selecting non-matching lines
  • Several lines, selecting
  • Slash character, in regular expressions
  • Spaces, pattern and hold
  • Standard input, processing as input
  • Stream editor
  • Substitution of text
  • Substitution of text, options

    • t

  • Text, appending
  • Text, insertion
  • Transliteration

    • u

  • Usage summary, printing

    • v

  • Version, printing

    • w

  • Write result of a substitution to file
  • Write to a file

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