(2) (ed) (EDitor) An early Unix line editor (text editor) that contained functionality later incorporated into vi. The sed editor (Stream EDitor) supersedes ed and, using ed commands, processes the entire text file instead of one line at a time. See sed.
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- Blog posts 2010-03-04
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- Blog posts 2010-03-04
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- Blog posts 2010-03-02
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- Discussion threads 2010-02-25
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