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The GNU sed manual has examples like that at the end. It always seemed odd to show examples of things that are so awkward and inefficient. If they meant for sed to do those things, presumably they would have made commands for them.

to show examples of things that are so awkward and inefficient

Yeah. As in, better done in awk. The opposite of awkward is sedward.

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