• Sed

    Pronunciation

    • US

    Origin

    From stream editor.

    Full definition of sed

    Noun

    sed

    (uncountable)
    1. (computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.

    Verb

    1. (neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using sed.Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?
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