sed
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 19, 2025first mention
Aug 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If emacs is not installed on a system, I use sed.”
“the shell, awk, sed and other commands (Chapter 12) were invaluable”
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“It is good to know grep, sed, and awk”
“LaTeX, vim, sed, awk, the whole Unix toolkit is getting a new lease on life”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
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All comments 10
“so I use sed”
“With sed if you stuck with BRE and avoided ERE you were going to be more portable.”
“why I use egrep and sed in pipes along with awk”
“For small stuff I use bash / sed / awk / jq / yq / curl etc.”
“I use emacs, vi, ed, sed, awk all the time”
“If emacs is not installed on a system, I use sed.”
“the shell, awk, sed and other commands (Chapter 12) were invaluable”
“It is good to know grep, sed, and awk”
“LaTeX, vim, sed, awk, the whole Unix toolkit is getting a new lease on life”
“I use shell, vim, sed all the time”