[Discuss] ed

[Kent Borg]

On 11/24/20 11:48 AM, dan moylan 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?

It is not on my Debian machine.

Well, it is now because I just installed it; seems wrong to not have 
this classic. A once-useful program that is less than a 100KB download. 
Olden days…

Glad the installation is called "ed", because it would be a hellish 
thing to search for.

And, checking my work Ubuntu machine, it is there.


-kb