10 engineers on Hacker News describe using sed first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we just used sed for our meagre templating needs. Works a treat, and never saw any value to using some specialized tool”
endorse · production · zie · 2020-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Things I have become an expert in that are now useless to me and probably not valued by an employer”
regret · production · pkteison · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“vim works just fine, as do R, matlab, python, scipy, bash, awk, sed, etc”
endorse · production · earl · 2012-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Linux for almost 20 years, including sed a lot of that time”
neutral · personal · embedding-shape · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nor does sed, a tool I've been using for decades.”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · derriz · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're using pdsh with tail -f piped into sed to follow logs from multiple remote servers at the same time, label them and colorize them”
neutral · production · francislavoie · 2022-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started out rolling our own pipeline with sed and awk and the usual suspects.”
neutral · production · markbnj · 2019-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“familiarizing myself with different commands, such as sed, grep and awk, to navigate around the command line and edit files”
neutral · personal · catacombs · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“any funky research is done by good ol' awk/grep/sed.”
neutral · production · sehrope · 2013-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“especially if you include sed/awk in there”
neutral · production · ccashell · 2011-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?