Re: ED

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 12:33 AM Thea DeSilva <[email protected]> wrote:

> one of these days my ed knowledge is going to stick. When I need to
> recover a broken system I sometimes boot bsd.rd. It doesn't have vim or
> anything like that but it does have ed. Last time I used this I had to edit
> my fstab. I forget how to use ed so quickly. How do you recover your
> systems?
>

I have found that there is very little need for ed(1) if you know sed(1).
And sed(1) has a lot more day-to-day usefulness so there's a better chance
of that knowledge sticking.

-ken