On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 12:33 AM Thea DeSilva <[email protected]> wrote:
> one of these days my ed knowledge is going to stick. When I need to > recover a broken system I sometimes boot bsd.rd. It doesn't have vim or > anything like that but it does have ed. Last time I used this I had to edit > my fstab. I forget how to use ed so quickly. How do you recover your > systems? > I have found that there is very little need for ed(1) if you know sed(1). And sed(1) has a lot more day-to-day usefulness so there's a better chance of that knowledge sticking. -ken
