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1.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
6.\"
7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions

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54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Nm
57utility reads the specified files, or the standard input if no files
58are specified, modifying the input as specified by a list of commands.
59The input is then written to the standard output.
60.Pp
61A single command may be specified as the first argument to
1.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
6.\"
7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions

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54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Nm
57utility reads the specified files, or the standard input if no files
58are specified, modifying the input as specified by a list of commands.
59The input is then written to the standard output.
60.Pp
61A single command may be specified as the first argument to
62.Nm sed .
62.Nm Ns .
63Multiple commands may be specified by using the
64.Fl e
65or
66.Fl f
67options.
68All commands are applied to the input in the order they are specified
69regardless of their origin.
70.Pp

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501and the remainder of the line are ignored (treated as a comment), with
502the single exception that if the first two characters in the file are
503.Dq #n ,
504the default output is suppressed.
505This is the same as specifying the
506.Fl n
507option on the command line.
508.El
63Multiple commands may be specified by using the
64.Fl e
65or
66.Fl f
67options.
68All commands are applied to the input in the order they are specified
69regardless of their origin.
70.Pp

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501and the remainder of the line are ignored (treated as a comment), with
502the single exception that if the first two characters in the file are
503.Dq #n ,
504the default output is suppressed.
505This is the same as specifying the
506.Fl n
507option on the command line.
508.El
509.Pp
509.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
510The
511.Nm
510The
511.Nm
512utility exits 0 on success and >0 if an error occurs.
512utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
513.Sh SEE ALSO
514.Xr awk 1 ,
515.Xr ed 1 ,
516.Xr grep 1 ,
517.Xr regex 3 ,
518.Xr re_format 7
519.Sh HISTORY
520A
521.Nm
522command appeared in
523.At v7 .
524.Sh STANDARDS
525The
526.Nm
527function is expected to be a superset of the
528.St -p1003.2
529specification.
513.Sh SEE ALSO
514.Xr awk 1 ,
515.Xr ed 1 ,
516.Xr grep 1 ,
517.Xr regex 3 ,
518.Xr re_format 7
519.Sh HISTORY
520A
521.Nm
522command appeared in
523.At v7 .
524.Sh STANDARDS
525The
526.Nm
527function is expected to be a superset of the
528.St -p1003.2
529specification.