"sed" question

Roger Rohrbach roger at rtech.UUCP
Sun Nov 17 11:47:40 AEST 1985


> Does anyone know of a way to put comments in a
> "sed" script?  Failing that, does anyone know that
> it is not possible to do so?
> 

(posting in addition to reply)

	The System V version of "sed" allows the first line of a
script to begin with a '#'; the line is treated as a comment.  The
4.2 BSD "sed" allows as many such lines as you care to sprinkle
throughout your script.

				Roger Rohrbach
				{ucb,dec}vax!mtxinu!rtech!roger



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