A.12. Ed

For installation instructions see Section 6.41.

A.12.1. 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

A.12.2. Contents of Ed

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

Installed programs: ed and red (link to ed)

A.12.3.

A.12.4. 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.

A.12.5.

A.12.6. Ed Installation Dependencies

Ed depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.