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+<tool id="sed_stream_editor" name="Manipulation" version="0.0.1">
+  <description>of text lines with regular expressions (sed)</description>
+  <command>sed -r '$pattern' $input > $outfile</command>
+  <inputs>
+    <param format="txt, tabular" name="input" type="data" label="Replace lines from"/>
+    <param name="pattern" size="40" type="text" value="" label="the pattern" help="here you can enter your sed expression (No syntax check or sanitising!)" />
+  </inputs>
+  <outputs>
+    <data format="input" name="outfile" metadata_source="input"/>
+  </outputs>
+  <options sanitize="False"/>
+ <requirements>
+    <requirement type="binary">sed</requirement>
+ </requirements>
+  <tests>
+
+  </tests>
+  <help>
+
+.. class:: warningmark
+
+Use with caution! Its a plain wrapper around **sed** and the input is not sanitized.
+
+
+-----
+
+**What it does**
+
+Changes every line of a text file according to a given regular expression.
+
+-----
+
+**Syntax**
+
+Use the **sed**-syntax -&gt; **s/find-pattern/replace-pattern/**
+
+**Example**
+
+- **s/x/-/** Replace all **x** with **-**.
+
+- **s/_.*//** Splits a string after **_** and replaces the rest with nothing.
+- **s/[^_]*_*//** Splits a string after **_** and replaces the first part with nothing.
+
+- **s/\\s.*//** Splits a string after whitespaces and replaces the rest with nothing.
+- **s/\\S*\\s*//** Splits a string after whitespaces and replaces the first part with nothing.
+
+
+</help>
+</tool>