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by riedel 586 days ago
Actually interactive editing with ed saved my ass once on my FreeBSD server once. Somehow, my terminal driver (actually I actually used my vt520 even for emails at the time) was totally broken so I only had a single line. I actually managed to edit the settings file with ed to get things straight and do a reboot. However, if you know sed you should be able to handle. However, this was 2001 or so and I somehow doubt that I it will happen again ...