SED /S-E-D/ n. [TMRC, from `Light-Emitting Diode'] Smoke-emitting
diode. A friode that lost the war. See also LER. [Not to be confused
with sed(1), the Unix stream editor. --ESR]
Sed
Stream editor.
The Unix stream editor. It has a powerful but cryptic
command language and is based on regular expressions.
There is a GNU version called GNU Sed.
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(1994-11-03)