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 ED(1)                             ed 1.16                             ED(1)
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                                February 2020



 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      superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.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

      -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

      -r, --restricted
           run in restricted mode

      -s, --quiet, --silent
           suppress diagnostics, byte counts and '!' prompt

      -v, --verbose
           be verbose; equivalent to the 'H' command

      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 flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or
      invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug)
      which caused ed to panic.

 REPORTING BUGS



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 ED(1)                             ed 1.16                             ED(1)
 User Commands                                                 User Commands

                                February 2020



      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 c 1994 Andrew L. Moore.
      Copyright c 2020 Antonio Diaz Diaz.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3
      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.

































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