Re: Help a sed noob

martin f krafft [off-list ref] writes:

also sprach Simon 'corecode' Schubert [off-list ref] [2007.08.04.1426 +0200]:

quoted

s// is "match last regexp, so s/// is "match last regexp and replace with 
empty string.

This fact is not in the manpage, AFAICT, at least not on Debian
systems.

IIRC, this is a traditional _ed_ feature.  I don't think it has ever
been a traditional part of _sed_, but maybe some implementations have
adopted this usage.

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