What is the s/findthis/replacewiththis syntax called?

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 30, 2011 - 5:07pm

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sed "stream editor" line editor vim text replacement search and change

what is the s/find/replace syntax called?

Stefan:

that's called search and replace with regular expressions

ed is the line editor used by vi [which includes this]
sed is just a stream version of ed

s is the substitution command.

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Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 30, 2011 - 7:36pm.

is covered in a very comprehensive Sed tutorial:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

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