HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

ed(1) ed(1)

A ! command cannot be subject to a

g or a v command.

The

! command and the ! escape from the

e, r, and w commands cannot be used if the the editor is

invoked from a restricted shell (see sh(1)).

The sequence

\n in a regular expression does not match a newline character.

The l command does not handle DEL correctly.

Files encrypted directly with the crypt command with the null key cannot be edited (see crypt(1)).

If the editor input is coming from a command ﬁle (e.g.,

ed file < ed-cmd-file) , the editor exits at

the ﬁrst failure of a command in the command ﬁle.

When reading a ﬁle,

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-ﬁle.

AUTHOR

ed was developed by HP and OSF.

FILES

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

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