Sed for Windows

Sed: stream editor

Version

4.2

Description

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.

Version 1.4 is the fast, small sed originally distributed in the GNU toolkit and still distributed with Minix -- but it's still better for some uses (in particular, faster and less memory-intensive).

More information can be found in the docs provided with the package, and in

• IBM Developer Works Common Threads: Sed by Example:
  • Part 1<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed1.html>
  • Part 2<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed2.html>
  • Part 3<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed3.html>
• Sed FAQ<http://sed.sourceforge.net/sedfaq.html>
• Grymoire Sed Tutorial<http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html>
• Sed and Regular Expressions<http://main.rtfiber.com.tw/~changyj/sed>
• Sourceforge project Sed<http://sed.sourceforge.net>
• SedSed<http://sedsed.sourceforge.net>
• Sed specification<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sed.html>
• Regular expressions specification<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html>
• Sed Tutorial<http://www.panix.com/~elflord/unix/sed.html>
• Sed Users Mailing List<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sed-users>

Homepage

http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/sed.html

Sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed

Download

If you download the Setup program of the package, any requirements for running applications, such as dynamic link libraries (DLL's) from the dependencies as listed below under Requirements, are already included. If you download the package as Zip files, then you must download and install the dependencies zip file yourself. Developer files (header files and libraries) from other packages are however not included; so if you wish to develop your own applications, you must separately install the required packages.

You can also download the files from the GnuWin32 files page. New releases of the port of this package can be monitored.

Installation, Usage and Help

Sed has an -b (--binary) for input and output in MS-Windows binary mode <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html#Text_files_and_binary_files>. The default is input and output in textmode. By using binary mode, all characters are copied verbatim; this is useful, for example, when editing files with Unicode characters, or with embedded Ctl-Z symbols.

General Installation Instructions

GnuWin32 Help (feature requests, bugs, etc)

Requirements

• Win32, i.e. MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 with msvcrt.dll and msvcp60.dll. If msvcrt.dll or msvcp60.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get them from Microsoft, or (msvcrt.dll only) by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
• libintl-2
• libiconv-2
• regex

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