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Sed Command in Unix
Name: Vj Date: November 9, 2004 at 12:15:38 Pacific OS: HP Unix CPU/Ram: NA
Comment:
Can anyone explain me what does the sed command do in the following shell script? I came across this in one of the shell acripts. The output of a SQL session is piped into it
sqlplus -s user/pass@db <<EOF set heading off feedback off serveroutput on select query_id, query_db_to_run,query_text from test where rownum = 1; exit; EOF ) | sed -e '/^$/d' -e 's/^[ ][ ]*/ /' | read v_query_id v_query_db_to_run v_query_text
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