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# 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 prompt:
`ed --prompt='> '`
- Start an interactive editor session with user-friendly errors:
`ed --verbose`
- Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and without diagnostics, byte counts and '!' prompt:
`ed --quiet`
- Start an interactive editor session without exit status change when command fails:
`ed --loose-exit-status`
- 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`