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Revision 2 . . September 26, 2001 7:48 pm by Drj [new first sentence with added context]
Revision 1 . . May 20, 2001 4:21 pm by TedDunning
  

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The acronym SED stands for Stream EDitor, but is also on the Latin word for but. Thus, in a typical unix pipe command, you might say something like
Sed is a UNIX text editor and the name of its language. SED stands for Stream EDitor, but is also on the Latin word for but. Thus, in a typical unix pipe command, you might say something like

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Sed is one of the very early unix commands that permitted command line processing of data files. Cousin to the later AWK, sed allowed powerful and interesting data processing to be done by shell scripts. Sed was probably the earliest Unix tool that really encouraged regular expressions to be used ubiquitously.
Sed is one of the very early unix commands that permitted command line processing of data files. Cousin to the later AWK, sed allowed powerful and interesting data processing to be done by shell scripts. Sed was probably the earliest Unix tool that really encouraged regular expressions to be used ubiquitously.

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Sed and AWK are often cited as the progenitors and inspiration for Perl.
Sed and AWK are often cited as the progenitors and inspiration for Perl.

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