sed: sed (stream editor) sed: sed: This is super-sed, a stream editor. A stream editor is used to sed: perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or sed: input from a pipeline). sed is a required package (it is needed sed: by many system scripts). It is sed's ability to filter text in sed: a pipeline which distinguishes it from other types of editors. sed: sed: GNU sed, on which super-sed is based, was first authored by Jay sed: Fenlason (and later modified by Tom Lord) , and is now maintained sed: by Ken Pizzini and Paolo Bonzini.