Intermediate Sed Usage
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If you’ve been using Linux for any small length of time, you’ve likely used sed before. Most of the time, you’ve seen it in the form of sed "s/find/replace/g", so you simply go to it whenever there’s a replacement you want to do. But sed stands for stream editor, and as a tool it can do more than just find and replace.

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  • @dalaristEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Nice, got some really good tidbits in there, and I especially like your opening, giving some context to understand the rest of the article

  • @lowleveldataEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Never quite understand what sed is designed for. It seems to be able to do almost everything in the cost of complexity. Really useful when I need to hack together some config files for auto builds tho.

    • GammaOPMEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      The name stream editor hints at its origin: It’s a strictly non-interactive implementation based on the standard Unix line editor ed – or technically qed, which is based on ed.