From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ishare Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:24:21 +0000 Subject: sed questions Message-Id: <20130314122421.GA4610@debian.localdomain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org In this command: sed '/^$/d' 1.txt what is the use of ^ and $ ? Are they two belonged to shell sematic or exlusive use for sed? thanks!