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The first UNIX book I studied in detail was the Kernighan and Pike book on The Unix Operating System. I learned the "ed" editor in detail with especial attention to regular expressions without which you cannot accomplish much using "ed." Perhaps blinded by nostalgia I still think it is a wonderful editor. When someone catches you using it and looks baffled mumble something about an IDE for shell scripts and quickly change the subject.
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The first UNIX book I studied in detail was the Kernighan and Pike book on The Unix Operating System. I learned the "ed" editor in detail with especial attention to regular expressions without which you cannot accomplish much using "ed." Perhaps blinded by nostalgia I still think it is a wonderful editor. When someone catches you using it and looks baffled mumble something about an IDE for shell scripts and quickly change the subject.