Good old ed(1). I don’t know why, but every now and then I like to edit my files using ed(1). Are there frequent ed(1) users around here? What is your motivation to use it?

  • pelya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    26 days ago

    ed is outdated technology. I recommend sed, I am using it each day to edit my files. Did you know that sed has it’s own scripting language, based on regular expressions? I can totally parse a .csv file using sed script, and this will take me less than a hour.

    • misterbzr@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      26 days ago

      I should have mentioned that I meant interactive mode. Thus as editor.

      I’m familiar with sed and awk.