Ed Mastery

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I’m glad someone’s finally giving ed the attention it deserves.

–Ken Thompson, co-creator of UNIX

Let me be perfectly clear; ed is the standard Unix text editor. If you don’t know ed, you’re not a real sysadmin.

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!