Installing Sed-4.0.9

The Sed package contains a stream editor.

Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
Required disk space:     5.2 MB

Official download location for Sed (4.0.9):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/

For its installation Sed depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Texinfo.

Installation of Sed

Prepare Sed for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin

Compile the package:

make

This package has a test suite 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

And install the package:

make install

Contents of Sed

Installed program: sed

Short description

sed is used to filter and transform text files in a single pass.