SEDAM(1)

💅 SEDAM(1) — General Commands Manual 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sedam — stream interface to edam 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sedam [ -n ] [ -e script ] [ -f sfile ] [ -- ] [ file ...  ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

sedam copies the named files — or standard input if you didn't name any, that's the default bestie — straight to standard output. The edit magic comes from a script of edam commands (q.v. — which see, iykyk) 🫶

When the script starts, the entire input is selected. Like, the whole thing is selected from the jump, no cap 👑.

• -f sfile — takes the script from the file sfile. Script? From a file? Obsessed.
• -e script — if there is a -e option and no -f, the -e flag may be omitted — so the script can just show up, lowkey.
• -n — suppresses the default output. No default output, periodt.
• -- — signals the end of the commandline options. All following arguments are filenames. That's the rule, bestie.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

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Print first 10 lines of file. 💖

sedam -n ,10p file

Print one word per line. 🦋

sedam 'y/[a-zA-Z]+/ c/\n/' *.ms

Delete empty lines from standard input. 🎀

sedam 's/\n\n+/\n/g'

Replace every instance of by — yes, that's literally the exact wording on the page, bestie, we're not inventing words 😭

sedam 's/UNIX/& system/g'

Count frequency of words read from standard input. 🔥

sedam 'y/[a-zA-Z]+/ c/\n/' | grep . | sort | uniq -c

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Go check out sed(1), edam((1)), and regexp((7)) — yes, edam((1)) and regexp((7)) really have those double parens, slay ✨

Also this iconic citation:

Rob Pike, ``The text editor sam''.

💀 BUGS 💀

🚨 BUG ALERT: sedam consumes all of standard input before running the script. So yeah, it's eating the whole snack before it even starts editing — no cap, bestie 💀

💖 okay that's the whole SEDAM(1) page — the footer is just SEDAM(1), no extra source/version/date tea, so that's the wrap, periodt 🎀✨