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		ralph on June 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Actually using Ed DOS's edlin is a very crude line editor, unlike ed(1) which has regular expressions, the g// command, etc.

AaronBBrown on June 18, 2012 [–]

Agreed, but the point was that there are very very few legitimate reason in 2012 to use ed unless you just happen to like it.

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