I'm working on a codebase right now which uses ed a lot in scripts. I probably wouldn't write new code which used it --- I like awk --- but it actually does the

I'm working on a codebase right now which uses ed a lot in scripts. I probably wouldn't write new code which used it --- I like awk --- but it actually does the job pretty well. Admittedly, the code does date back to 1984 in places.