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Introduced a colleague to ed(1) today. “Ohh, that’s nice. I always wanted to have a tool like that.” 🥳 (This refers strictly to ed’s ability to edit files from a script. Like, “search for regex
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$foo, go down five lines, now search for $bar from here, then change $x to $y in the matching line.”)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I like ed(1) quite a lot really, so much so I wrote my own ed – Have you seen/tried it? 🤔 I also include it as a busybox-style binary in GoNix 😅