hi Clarke, in case you sill have connections to HP. it would be nice if you could convince them to publish that manuals on the internet.
re, wh Clarke Echols schrieb: > I wrote an extensive tutorial on sed back about 1987 or so. It's part > of HP's HP-UX User Guide series: "Text Editors and Processors". I don't > know if you can get your hands on it or not. I based it on the > sed standards-conformance tests that were run before the software could > be shipped, plus other explanatory stuff. > > The thing that confuses people about sed is the concept of "pattern > space". ^ is the start, and $ is the end, but you can have multiple > lines in the space at the same time, with each adjacent pair > separated by a newline (represented as \n in substitutions and > pattern searches). > > It's a very powerful program -- especially when run from inside vi > (vim) and vi is run non-interactively from a shell script by > redirecting input from a command file that ends with "ZZ" or ":wq" > on the last line in the file. > > I overhauled the entire HP-UX Reference (manpages) in a few minutes > that way. Took about 3 hours to write and debug the code, but the > job ran in less than 5 minutes on a 30-MHz processor. It would > be interesting to see how long it would take on a 2-Ghz machine. :-) > > I converted all in-line coding to macros; i.e., \fB became .B, etc. > and I completely changed the typography conventions from AT&T to > current industry practice, and got rid of font inconsistencies too. > >
