1 This is the GNU implementation of sed, the Unix stream editor. 2 3 See the NEWS file for a brief summary and the ChangeLog for 4 more detailed descriptions of changes. 5 6 See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation 7 instructions. 8 9 See the file BUGS for instructions about reporting bugs. 10 11 The file README.boot gives instructions for making a "bootstrap" 12 version of sed on systems which lack any pre-existing and working 13 version of sed. 14