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+<sect2><title>Contents of Sed</title>
+
+<para>Last checked against version &sed-contversion;.</para>
+
+<para>sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text
+transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a
+pipeline).</para>
+
+<para>Sed installs the following:</para>
+
+<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<para>sed</para></sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+
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+<sect2><title>Contents of Sh-utils</title>
+
+<para>Last checked against version &sh-utils-contversion;.</para>
+
+<para>The sh-utils package contains a number of basic shell manipulation
+utilities.</para>
+
+<para>Sh-utils installs the following:</para>
+
+<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<para>basename, chroot, date, dirname,
+echo, env, expr, factor, false, groups, hostid, id, logname,
+nice, nohup, pathchk, pinky, printenv, printf, pwd, seq, sleep, stty,
+su, tee, test, true, tty, uname, uptime, users, who, whoami and
+yes</para></sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+