awk is almost as simple as sed, you can put the script directly in the command line. It has a much more complete set of utilities, sometimes it is viewed as a programming language, like perl.
numnum(numnum)
Actully, I only use sed as "sed -n "s/***/88/g" " because it already beomes a habit.
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