Examples of “sed” in a Sentence

noun A command-line program used on Unix-like systems to search, replace, and edit text automatically, line by line, without opening it in a full text editor.

• He ran a quick sed command to swap every "color" for "color" in the file.
• The build script uses sed to strip comments out of the SQL dump before importing it.

verb To process or modify a text file or stream using the sed program.

• Just sed the log file to remove the timestamps before you share it.