sed

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

Proper noun

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

Origin

From stream editor.

Noun

  1. A line fastening a fish-hook.

    Synonyms: snood

Forms

seds

Verb neologism, slang

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

Forms

seds sedding sedded

Verb alt of, pronunciation spelling

  1. Eye dialect spelling of said.

Related

sed rate