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 The GNU ed line editor
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 This manual is for GNU ed (version 1.1, 14 October 2008).
 
 
    GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant
 implementation of the standard Unix line editor. These days,
 full-screen editors have rendered `ed' mostly of historical interest.
 Nonetheless, it appeals to a handful of aging programmers who still
 believe that "Small is Beautiful".
 

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* Overview                       Overview of the `ed' command
* Introduction to Line Editing   Getting started with GNU `ed'
* Invoking Ed                    Command line interface
* Line Addressing                Specifying lines/ranges in the buffer
* Regular Expressions            Patterns for selecting text
* Commands                       Commands recognized by GNU `ed'
* Limitations                    Intrinsic limits of GNU `ed'
* Diagnostics                    GNU `ed' error handling
* GNU Free Documentation License How you can copy and share this manual
 
 
    Copyright (C) 1993, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
 Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
 

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