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I once broke a system's libncurses.so and my only access was over ssh due to distance; neither nano, vi, vim, emacs, would work. ed saved me that day.
by jcelerier 8y ago
I once broke a system's libncurses.so and my only access was over ssh due to distance; neither nano, vi, vim, emacs, would work.
ed saved me that day.
- kstrauser 8y agoSimilar here: I was trying to troubleshoot a remote system where /usr wouldn't mount, so no termcap, not readline, no lib_anything_helpful_whatsoever.so, nothing. I figured if I were competent with vi then I could at least hack around a bit with ed, and I was right.
- cozzyd 8y agowouldn't it have been easier to just edit the files on a local machine?
- throwaway427 8y agoPossible this predates widespread rollout of SCP and the host didn't have RCP enabled.