Ed Mastery
Let me be perfectly clear: ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor. If you don’t know ed, you’re not a sysadmin. You're a mere dabbler. A dilettante. Deficient. Forty years after ed’s introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the mysteries of ed for everyone. With Ed Mastery, you too can become a proper sysadmin. Ed Mastery will help you: •understand buffers and addresses •insert, remove, and mangle text •master file management and shell escapes •comprehend regular expressions, searches, and substitutions •create high-performance scripts for transforming files You must be at least this competent to use this computer. Read Ed Mastery today!
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- I believe Sam is a predecessor of Acme[1][2], which still attracts new users today. One of its notable users is Russ Cox, the tech lead of the Golang team. I haven’t used Acme yet, but I want to try it out one day.
If you’re interested in learning more about ed, I highly recommend “Ed Mastery” by Michael W Lucas [3]
[1] https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M [3] https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07BVBSDNZ
- Of course, there is Ed Mastery by Michael W. Lucas: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed that you can read in an afternoon easily. It helps you understand some UNIX history, explains why stuff works the way it works and you can have a good laugh at that.
- Earnestly and seriously:
Ed Mastery: The Standard Unix Text Editor (IT Mastery) (Volume 13) by Michael W Lucas
- Oh, come on, a book by a well-known author was released last year [1], there is a lively Twitter account [2] and... I personally use it almost daily for some task or another. I wish there was a Ubuntu package for the line mode browser of yore [3]... though I admit I wouldn't use it almost daily!
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Mastery-Standard-Unix-Editor/dp/16...
- Michael W Lucas has his Ed Mastery [1]. I am not sure how good it is as I am yet to read it, but I have enjoyed his OpenBSD books.
- In a similar vein of authors trolling the trolls, after receiving complaints about his decision to use female sysadmins as examples in his tech books (IIRC he usually alternates genders in examples), Michael Lucas published a "Manly McManface" edition of Ed Mastery which has an all-male cast of sysadmins... at a much higher price.
