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# Ed

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Ed-0.2 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Ed (0.2):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ed/
Ed Mkstemp Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/ed-0.2-mkstemp.patch

## Contents of Ed

(Last checked against version 0.2.)

GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, POSIX-compliant line editor.

Installed programs: ed and red (link to ed)

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## Short descriptions

ed is a line-oriented text editor. It can be used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files.

red is a restricted ed -- it can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands.

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## Ed Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 0.2.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: cat, chmod, cp, hostname, install, ln, mv, rm, touch, tr
Diffutils: cmp
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed

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