ed Cheatsheet

ed : The original Unix text editor.

Start an interactive editor session with an empty document:

ed

Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and a specific [p]rompt:

ed -p '> '

Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and without diagnostics, byte counts and ‘!’ prompt:

ed -s

Edit a specific file (this shows the byte count of the loaded file):

ed path/to/file

Replace a string with a specific replacement for all lines:

,s/regular_expression/replacement/g

See also: awk , sed .

For more info, check its GNU manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html .

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