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GNU implementation of the POSIX stream editor `sed'.
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Sed (streams editor) isn't really a true text editor or text
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processor. Instead, it is used to filter text, i.e., it takes text
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input and performs some operation (or set of operations) on it and
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outputs the modified text. Sed is typically used for extracting part
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of a file using pattern matching or substituting multiple occurrences
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of a string within a file.
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