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by ogogmad 1435 days ago
Why not use sed?
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Because it’s not standard.
No, it is. And as other people have pointed out, it ships on more distros.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/se...

It's "ed" which is de facto non-standard.