5.24. Installing Sed-4.0.7

5.24.1. Contents of Sed

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).

Installed program: sed

5.24.2.

5.24.3. Sed Installation Dependencies

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

5.24.4.

5.24.5. Installation of Sed

Prepare Sed for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the program:

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

Then install it and its documentation:

make install