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by chasil 782 days ago
sed is also a Turing-complete language.
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Interesting! I just wonder... How would you do a conditional branching in sed?
There is a conditional branch instruction in sed that is taken if the last substitute command was successful.

The O'Reilly book on sed & awk is available online for free from various sources (I grabbed a rar archive of it from somewhere).

https://freecomputerbooks.com/The-Unix-CD-Bookshelf-Version-...