-.\" $OpenBSD: sed.1,v 1.53 2017/12/11 13:25:57 martijn Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sed.1,v 1.54 2017/12/19 17:46:28 martijn Exp $
.\"
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.\" from: @(#)sed.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 11 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 19 2017 $
.Dt SED 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std sed
-.Sh EXAMPLES
-The following simulates the
-.Xr cat 1
-.Fl s
-command,
-squeezing excess empty lines from standard input:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-$ sed -n '
-# Write non-empty lines.
-/./ {
- p
- d
- }
-# Write a single empty line, then look for more empty lines.
-/^$/ p
-# Get the next line, discard the held <newline> (empty line),
-# and look for more empty lines.
-:Empty
-/^$/ {
- N
- s/.//
- b Empty
- }
-# Write the non-empty line before going back to search
-# for the first in a set of empty lines.
- p
-\&'
-.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr awk 1 ,
.Xr ed 1 ,