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