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		martythemaniak on July 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial Here is a command that really opened my eyes to how cool sed, grep and piping are: ls -R \| grep ":$" \| sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/\|/' courtesy of this site: http://www.centerkey.com/tree/

silentbicycle on July 28, 2008 [–]

This ties in nicely to the threads about the necessity of comments. :)

As a bonus, most (all?) of the sed commands are also usable in vi's ex mode (the : prompt).

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