macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install desedlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rank 8574
Install desed with Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix
Debugger for Sed. Version 1.2.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#desed.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add desedAlpine Linux edge package indexes · desed · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install desedFedora Rawhide package metadata · desed · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#desednixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/de/desed/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Debugger for Sed
Project links
Commands and aliases
- desed
history
Project history and usage
desed is a terminal user-interface debugger for sed scripts. It wraps GNU sed's debugging capability with interactive stepping, breakpoints, reverse stepping, hot reload, and state inspection.
Project history
The maintainer describes desed as a first Rust project built because sed lacked comfortable debugging tooling. The project reached public 1.x releases by 2020 and had a v1.2.2 release in 2024.
Adoption history
The official README lists several package routes, including Alpine Linux, Arch AUR, DragonFly BSD, Fedora, FreeBSD, Void Linux, Cargo, source builds, and precompiled GitHub releases. That spread reflects a small but real command-line audience across Unix-like package ecosystems.
How it is used
Users run desed to step through sed programs, inspect pattern and hold-space state, preview substitutions, place breakpoints, and reload edited scripts while staying in a terminal UI.
Why package nerds care
desed is notable because it gives a classic Unix stream editor the kind of interactive debugger usually associated with larger programming languages. For package collectors, it is a niche but memorable text-processing tool: small, Rust-based, and aimed at people who write enough sed to need a debugger.
Timeline
- 2020: v1.2.0 added autoreload and BSD support.
- 2022: v1.2.1 fixed BSD file-watch support on armv7.
- 2024: v1.2.2 was published.
Related projects
- Related tools include GNU sed itself and sed programs such as sedtris, which the README references as an example of complex sed usage.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: red
escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal.
Risk classifier
red risk · medium confidence · escape-surveillance-offensive
Why
- escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal
Signals
- text:debugger
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
desed | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.2.2
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:desed |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.2 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://soptik.tech/articles/building-desed-the-sed-debugger.html |
| Repository | https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
desed
nix profile install nixpkgs#desed- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Desed
apk95%
desed 1.2.2-r0
Demystify and debug your sed scripts, from comfort of your terminal
https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed
sudo apk add desed- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: desed
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Desed
apk95%
desed-doc 1.2.2-r0
Demystify and debug your sed scripts, from comfort of your terminal (documentation)
https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed
sudo apk add desed-doc- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: desed
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Desed
dnf95%
desed 1.2.2-9.fc45
Sed script debugger
https://crates.io/crates/desed
sudo dnf install desed- License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND ISC AND MIT AND Zlib AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: rust-desed
- 6 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Desed
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation