ED
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Updated: January 2023
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NAME
ed - line-oriented text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed
[,options/] [,file/]
DESCRIPTION
GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display,
modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via
shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in
the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the
'standard' text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for
Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is
superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
-
display this help and exit
- -V, --version
-
output version information and exit
- -E, --extended-regexp
-
use extended regular expressions
- -G, --traditional
-
run in compatibility mode
- -l, --loose-exit-status
-
exit with 0 status even if a command fails
- -p, --prompt=,STRING/
-
use STRING as an interactive prompt
- -q, --quiet, --silent
-
suppress diagnostics written to stderr
- -r, --restricted
-
run in restricted mode
- -s, --script
-
suppress byte counts and '!' prompt
- -v, --verbose
-
be verbose; equivalent to the 'H' command
- --strip-trailing-cr
-
strip carriage returns at end of text lines
Start edit by reading in 'file' if given.
If 'file' begins with a '!', read output of shell command.
Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems
(file not found, invalid command line options, I/O errors, etc), 2 to
indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency
error (e.g., bug) which caused ed to panic.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to bug-ed@gnu.org
Ed home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html
General help using GNU software: http://www.gnu.org/gethelp
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1994 Andrew L. Moore.
Copyright © 2023 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
ed
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
ed
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info ed
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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