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[address1[,address2]]v [version] {G}This command doesn't do anything. You use it to require GNU sed for your script. This works, because non-GNU versions of sed don't implement the command at all, and will therefore fail. If you supply a specific version, GNU sed fails if the required version is newer than the one executing the script.