Sed

The Stream editor (sed) reads text files, makes editing changes by a command script, and writes the results to standard output.

History

SED was originally developed in the 1970ies as a non-interactive text editor by Lee E. McMahon (AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey).

Features

• Support for regular expressions

Implementations

• GNU sed
• Hamilton C Shell 1.05
• minised
• super sed - enhanced version

Links

• sed (The Open Group Base Specifications)
• Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial by Bruce Barnett
• Sed Tutorials