Ed is still in my fedora, but neither ed nor ex are really appropriate for scripts. IMHO sed is a much more appropriate command. I don't believe that ed was ever a bash builtin. So if you need it you can install it from the distribution, although it may not be installed by default.
-- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 2:50 PM dan moylan <[email protected]> wrote: > > i noticed that one of my cron scripts had not been working > for some time, and on investigation saw that it was because > it invoked ed. why was ed removed from the bash lexicon? > an excess of viagra? and when? > > of course ex does the job, but .... just askin'. > > ole dan > > j. daniel moylan > 84 harvard ave > brookline, ma 02446-6202 > 617-777-0207 (cel) > [email protected] > www.moylan.us > [BLM] > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
