ed
The original Unix text editor. See also:
awk
,sed
. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html.
- Start an interactive editor session with an empty document:
ed
- Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and a specific [p]rompt:
ed -p '> '
- Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and without diagnostics, byte counts and '!' prompt:
ed -s
- Edit a specific file (this shows the byte count of the loaded file):
ed {{path/to/file}}
- Replace a string with a specific replacement for all lines:
,s/{{regular_expression}}/{{replacement}}/g