ed
The original Unix text editor. See also:awk
,sed
. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html.
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Start an interactive editor session with an empty document:
ed
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Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and a specific [p]rompt:
ed -p '> '
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Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and without diagnostics, byte counts and '!' prompt:
ed -s
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Edit a specific file (this shows the byte count of the loaded file):
ed {{path/to/file}}
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Replace a string with a specific replacement for all lines:
,s/{{regular_expression}}/{{replacement}}/g
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