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 The GNU ed line editor
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 This manual is for GNU ed (version 1.9, 18 June 2013).
 
 
    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 superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.
 

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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
* Problems                       Reporting bugs
* GNU Free Documentation License How you can copy and share this manual
 
 
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 2013 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 1.3 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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