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[Discuss] ed



On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 14:48:51 -0500
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?

ed has never been part of bash. It's a standalone line editor. You
probably just need to install the appropriate package.

-- 
Rich Pieri



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