NAME

sedsed - debugger and code formatter for sed scripts

SYNOPSIS

sedsed OPTION [-e sedscript] [-f sedscriptfile] [inputfile]

DESCRIPTION

sedsed can debug, indent, tokenize and HTMLize sed scripts.

In debug mode, it reads the target script and adds extra commands to it. When executed it shows the data flow between the commands, revealing all the magic sed does on its internal buffers.

In indent mode, the script is reformatted with standard spacing.

In tokenize mode, it shows the elements of every command used.

In HTMLize mode, the script is converted to a beautiful colored HTML file, with all the commands and parameters identified for best viewing.

OPTIONS

-f, --file

Add file contents to the commands to be parsed.

-e, --expression

Add the script to the commands to be parsed.

-n, --quiet

Suppress automatic printing of pattern space.

--silent

Alias to --quiet.

-d, --debug

Debug the sed script.

--hide

Hide some debug info (options: PATT, HOLD, COMM).

--color

Shows debug output in colors (default: ON).

--nocolor

No colors on debug output.

--dump-debug

Dumps to screen the debugged sed script.

-i, --indent

Script beautifier, prints indented and one-command-per-line output do STDOUT.

--prefix

Indent prefix string (default: 4 spaces).

-t, --tokenize

Script tokenizer, prints extensive command by command information.

-H, --htmlize

Converts sed script to a colorful HTML page.

-V, --version

Prints the program version and exit.

-h, --help

Prints this help message and exit.

AUTHOR

sedsed was written by Aurelio Jargas <aurelio@aurelio.net>.

This manual page was written by Marcos Talau <marcos@talau.info> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).