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ed: Start an interactive editor session with an empty document and a specific prompt.
$ ed --prompt='> '
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The command "ed --prompt='> '" is used to open the ed (editor) program with a custom prompt.
- "ed" is a line-oriented text editor that is available on Unix-like operating systems.
- "--prompt='> '" is an option that sets the prompt in ed to "> ".
The prompt is the character or sequence of characters that appears at the beginning of each command line in the editor. By default, ed uses a colon (":") as the prompt. However, with this command, the prompt will be changed to a greater than sign (">").
Once ed is launched with this command, any commands entered by the user will be preceded by the greater than sign (">") prompt, indicating that they should enter a command at that point. For example, if you want to insert some text, you might enter "> i" at the prompt to switch to insert mode, then type the desired text.
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