Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In
general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably
won't use it much.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118978 Sep 8 1999 /bin/ed ?rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Sep 8 1999 /bin/red drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 8 1999 /usr/doc/ed-0.2 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 510 Nov 19 1994 /usr/doc/ed-0.2/NEWS -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3739 Nov 19 1994 /usr/doc/ed-0.2/POSIX -r--r--r-- 1 root root 357 Nov 19 1994 /usr/doc/ed-0.2/README -r--r--r-- 1 root root 716 Nov 19 1994 /usr/doc/ed-0.2/THANKS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9008 Sep 8 1999 /usr/info/ed.info.gz -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7093 Sep 8 1999 /usr/man/man1/ed.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7093 Sep 8 1999 /usr/man/man1/red.1.gz