ed(1)

ed(1)

When reading a ®le, ed discards ASCII NUL characters and all characters after the last newline. This can cause unexpected behavior when using regular expressions to search for character sequences containing NUL characters or text near end-of-®le.

AUTHOR

ed was developed by HP and OSF.

FILES

/tmp/ep Temporary buffer ®le where p is the process number.

ed.hup Work is saved here if the terminal is hung up.

SEE ALSO

awk(1), csh(1), crypt(1), ex(1), grep(1), ksh(1), sed(1), sh(1), sh-bourne(1), sh-posix(1), stty(1), vi(1), fspec(4), environ(5), lang(5), regexp(5).

The ed section in Text Processing: User's Guide.

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

ed: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3, XPG4, POSIX.2

red: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3

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