6.27. Sed-4.2.2

The Sed package contains a stream editor.

Approximate build time: 0.2 SBU

Required disk space: 12 MB

6.27.1. Installation of Sed

Prepare Sed for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2

The meaning of the new configure option:

--htmldir: This sets the installation directory for the HTML documentation.

Compile the package and generate the HTML documentation:

make
make html

To test the results, issue:

make check

Install the package and its documentation:

make install
make -C doc install-html

Installed program: sed

Installed directory: /usr/share/doc/sed-4.2.2

sed

Filters and transforms text files in a single pass