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sed

sed is a stream editor for filtering and transforming text. It reads files or standard input, applies a script, and writes the result to standard output.

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Syntax

sed [-n] [-e script] [-f script-file] [script-if-no-other-script] [file...]

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Source: sed(1) - Linux manual page. Checked 2026-11-03.