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ed

The original Unix text editor. See also: awk, sed. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html.
  • Start an interactive editor session with an empty document:
    ed
  • Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and a specific prompt:
    ed --prompt='> '
  • Start an interactive editor session with user-friendly errors:
    ed --verbose
  • Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and without diagnostics, byte counts and '!' prompt:
    ed --quiet
  • Start an interactive editor session without exit status change when command fails:
    ed --loose-exit-status
  • Edit a specific file (this shows the byte count of the loaded file):
    ed {{path/to/file}}
  • Replace a string with a specific replacement for all lines:
    ,s/{{regular_expression}}/{{replacement}}/g

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