Learn to use the Sed text editor

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 23, 2020 4:32 PM EDT
Opensource.com; By Seth Kenlon
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Created for version 7 of AT&T’s original Unix operating system, the sed command has been included with probably every Unix and Linux OS since. The sed application is a stream editor, and unlike a text editor it doesn’t open a visual buffer into which a file’s data is loaded for processing. Instead, it operates on a file, line by line, according to either a command typed into a terminal or a series of commands in a script.

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