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		irishsultan on Jan 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For the Love of Pipes That's not the same thing. The sed output will still keep lines not starting with x (just not replacing foo with bar in those) where grep will filter those out.

kps on Jan 23, 2019 [–]

Yeah, Muphry's law at work. Corrected version:

   sed -n '/^x/s/foo/bar/gp' <input

This may be an inadvertent argument for the ‘connect simpler tools’ philosophy.

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