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English word origin

Etymology of sed

From stream editor.

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
name

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

verb

To edit a file or stream of text using sed.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From stream editor.

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