5.15. Installing Sed

5.15.1. Installation of Sed

Install Sed by running the following commands:

export CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 &&
./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr --bindir=$LFS/bin &&
unset CPPFLAGS &&
make LDFLAGS=-static &&
make install

5.15.2. Contents

The Sed package contains the sed program.

5.15.3. Description

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).