sed wizardry

· Thiago Perrotta · March 16, 2026, 11 a.m.
Summary
This post introduces a clever use of GNU sed to replace a hallucinated link in a GitHub pull request. It demonstrates a sed command that employs a pipe as a delimiter instead of a slash, enhancing readability. The author provides a simple shell command example illustrating how to edit a pull request body effectively while highlighting the clarity of using different delimiters in sed syntax.
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