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What is the purpose of the sed?

• aplorbust 9y ago
  Remove Javascript and links to Javascript files that load ads, etc. Preserve only the desired content: text describing the boards, links to manufacturers websites, links to images.
• bproven 9y ago
  Being partially sed stupid myself (or just plain stupid), I think its supposed to pull only the text between paragraph tags and save that to an htm file; then launch firefox and display that file, giving you only the pertinent text of the article (sans ads)
• adventureadmin 9y ago
  Specifically, it modifies the file in place (-i), Matches lines between paragraph tags(/PatternStart/,/PatternEnd/), Then, doesn't delete those lines matching the pattern range (!d), which has the effect of deleting all other lines outside the pattern range when passed the in-place argument.
• singlow 9y ago
  Looks like it is deleting everything not contained in paragraph tags.