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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, but ed (or in Addition sed) gets used quite a lot when editing files or strings in bash scripts.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've used a lot of sed but never ed. Should skim the man page at sone point.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

here is a nice little video about ed that made me want to try it, it's a very good creator in general https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoyNMFccbow