A brief introduction to Sed.

Pattern matching and text manipulation from the terminal.

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Sed is an early UNIX program meant to function as a non-interactive ‘stream editor’. It is one of the earliest programs to support the use of regular expressions for pattern matching, and has remained a popular for editing and filtering streams of text from the command line. In this article, I’m going to go through some of the basics, and provide some…