Installing Sed-4.0.7

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  2 MB

Contents of Sed

(Last checked against version 3.02.)

sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline).

Sed installs the following:

Sed Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 3.02.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: cat, chmod, expr, hostname, install, ls, mv, rm, echo, sleep, tr
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo

Installation of Sed

Prepare Sed to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the program:

make 

This package has a testsuite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

Then install it and its documentation:

make install