Ed Mastery - tildebooks

English language

Published Nov. 23, 2018 by Tilted Windmill Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-64235-003-6

(1 review)

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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Tomasino reviewed Ed Mastery by Michael W Lucas

Review of 'Ed Mastery' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

April fools joke or not, this book is seriously useful. Even though I will likely never use ed(1) directly on purpose, I'm now comfortable enough to get by. More importantly, I discovered a lot of the underlying logic behind vim's Ex mode, g/re/p, and sed that weren't as intuitive before. Michael's tone and humor kept what could have been a very boring topic wildly engaging. I was sharing snippets with people all throughout my read and even went back to give the regex section a second pass.

If this book has come across your path, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's worth every penny.