According to http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_sed.htm
suppress automatic printing of pattern
space
I’ve tested with or without -n, sed will produce same result
I dont understand what space does it means.
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Just try a sed do-nothing:
and
First will print whole file but second will NOT print anything.