Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A. Middle English form of
seed . - noun A line of silk, gut, or hair by which a fish-hook is fastened to the line: a snood.
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- noun computing A
noninteractive text editor (originally developed inUnix ), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way. - verb neologism, slang To edit a file or stream of text using sed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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October 7, 2008 10: 22 AM all what was sed is true, men are taking over the female jobs why cant women rise to do men's jobs
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All but the simplest text extraction tasks are difficult with sed, which is basically a regexp filtering program.
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All but the simplest text extraction tasks are difficult with sed, which is basically a regexp filtering program.
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Passing a word into a shell script that calls sed sed to emulate grep is:
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All but the simplest text extraction tasks are difficult with sed, which is basically a regexp filtering program.
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The script uses some regular expression sed magic, friendly tweaked by
Planet Ubuntu 2009
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Artemus Ward, from Maine, wrote a flat Down-Eastish dialect that relied heavily on pointless ( "sed" for "said") or drastic ( "goak" for "joke") cacography and lacked Kelly's lyricism.
Pogo Leithauser, Brad 2002
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One neet a little lass knock'd at th 'door, an' sed 'at Emma had sent her to tell her an' Isaac to go a to see her as sooin as ivver they could.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Long back when Shlomi had suggested a "sed" way, I actually shell scripted it, and now publishing.
Planet MySQL Kedar 2010
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Copy that file to the name newdatabase. dump and edit it, or use 'sed', to replace all appearances of host1. domain.com with host2. domain.com
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