ex — Display-Based Text Editor

Synopsis

/usr/bin/ex [- | -s][-l][-L][-R][-r [file]][-t tag][-v][-V] 
  [-x][-wn][-C][+command | -c command] file... 
/usr/xpg4/bin/ex [- | -s][-l] [-L][-R][-r [file]][-t tag][-v][-V] 
  [-x][-wn][-C][+command | -c command] file... 

Description

The ex command is the root of a family of editors: ex, edit, and vi. ex is a superset of ed(1), with the most notable extension being a display-editing facility. Display-based editing is the focus of vi.

If you have a CRT terminal, you may want to use a display based editor; in this case, see vi(1), which is a command that focuses on the display-editing portion of ex.

If you have used ed, you will find that, in addition to having all of the ed commands available, ex has a number ...

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