[Discuss] ed

[Jerry Feldman]

Ed is still in my fedora, but neither ed nor ex are really appropriate for
scripts. IMHO sed is a much more appropriate command.
I don't believe that ed was ever a bash builtin. So if you need it you can
install it from the distribution, although it may not be installed by
default.

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 2:50 PM dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:

>
> i noticed that one of my cron scripts had not been working
> for some time, and on investigation saw that it was because
> it invoked ed.  why was ed removed from the bash lexicon?
> an excess of viagra?  and when?
>
> of course ex does the job, but .... just askin'.
>
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