Ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. Ed isn't something which many people use. It's described here because it can be used by the patch program if you encounter an ed-based patch file. This happens rarely because diff-based patches are preferred these days.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ed/ed-1.20.2.tar.lz
Download MD5 sum: 8f31ca1cb5a2e2ca8ee2598cc0bf53e1
Download size: 68 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
libarchive-3.7.7 (for bsdtar)
Install Ed by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install