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Sed

sed (short for stream editor) is a utility that transforms text via a script written in a relatively simple and compact programming language. It was developed from 1973 to 1974 by Lee E. McMahon of Bell Labs, and is available today for most operating systems. The functionality of sed is based on the scripting features of the interactive editor ed…

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Use

GOTOTuring-completeEsotericGamesSokoban
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History

Version 7 UnixGrepPattern matchingECMAScriptShell scripts
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Limitations and alternatives

HeadTailTrViVim
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Processing

Input streamIterationOne-liner programs
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Designed by
Lee E. McMahon
First appeared
1974; 52 years ago (1974)
Implementation language
C
Paradigm
scripting

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Limitations and alternatives

  • Head Head (Unix)
  • Tail Tail (Unix)
  • Tr Tr (Unix)
  • Vi Vi (text editor)
  • Vim Vim (text editor)
  • Sam Sam (text editor)
  • Plan 9 Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Sed

Nodes64
Edges63
Triples108
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.03125
Components1

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Sed

Top relations

related to history · 22
Sed → Another, AWK, BSD, ECMAScript, Eric, First, Foreseeing, GNU, GNU Project, It, Its, Later, McMahon, Minix, Perl, Perl's, Raymond, René Rebe, Super-sed, The
related to Further reading · 21
Sed → Arnold Robbins, Bell Lab's Eighth Edition, Daniel Goldman, December, Definitive Guide, Dougherty, EHDP Press, FAQ, February, ISBN, June, March, O'Reilly, Peter Patsis, Pocket Reference, Prentice Hall, SED Programmer's Interactive Workbook, Sourceforge, Unix, UNIX AWK
related to External links · 17
Sed → An Introduction, Bruce Barnett, Eric, Eric Pement, ExactCODE, GNU, Plan, Programmer's Manual, Raymond, Shell, Stream Editor, The Open Groupsed, The Single UNIX Specification, Tutorial, Utilities Reference, Version, Volume
related to Limitations and alternatives · 7
Sed → AWK, Conversely, For, Perl, These, Unix, While
related to Processing · 7
Sed → As, Because, For, Nto, Other, Thus, Unless
related to Conditional execution · 5
Sed → Commands, For, GOTO-like, The, Turing-complete
related to Script · 5
Sed → Double, However, Most, The, When
related to Substitution · 3
Sed → Slash, The, Thesstands
related to In-place editing · 2
Sed → GNU, The
related to Matching · 2
Sed → For, Supported

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Important terminology

line command pattern text ed awk script substitution used space commands gnu perl file via regular stream matching shell expression

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SedDesigned byLee E. McMahon1.00infobox
SedFirst appeared1974; 52 years ago (1974)1.00infobox
SedImplementation languageC1.00infobox
SedParadigmscripting1.00infobox
Sedis aextended version of sed that includes regular expressions compatible with Perl0.90text
sokobaninstance ofand esoteric sed scripts exist for games0.80text
arkanoidinstance ofand esoteric sed scripts exist for games0.80text
chessinstance ofand esoteric sed scripts exist for games0.80text
and tetris.Matchingsed supports regular expression syntax for matching input text to a patterninstance ofand esoteric sed scripts exist for games0.80text
and tetrisinstance ofand esoteric sed scripts exist for games0.80text
AWK or Perl are used insteadinstance ofmore powerful languages0.80text
grepinstance ofspecialized Unix utilities0.80text

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