Command Reference Guide

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ex(1) ex(1)
NAME
ex, edit - extended line-oriented text editor
SYNOPSIS
ex [-][-l][-r][-R][-t tag][-v][-wsize][-x][-C][+command][file ...]
XPG4 Synopsis
ex [-rR][-s  -v][-c command][-t tag][-w size][file ...]
Obsolescent Options
ex [-rR][- -v][+command][-t tag][-w size][file ...]
edit [-][-l][-r][-R][-t tag][-v][-wsize][-x][-C][+command][file ...]
Remarks
The program names ex, edit, vi, view, and vedit are separate personalities of the same program.
This manual entry describes the behavior of the ex/edit personality. On many HP-UX and other similar
systems, e is a synonym for ex.
DESCRIPTION
The ex program is the line-oriented personality of a text editor that also supports screen-oriented editing
(see vi(1)).
(XPG4 only.) Certain block-mode terminals do not have all the capabilities necessary to support the com-
plete ex definition, such as the full-screen editing commands (visual mode or openmode). When these
commands cannot be supported on such terminals, this condition shall neither produce an error message
such as "not an editor command" nor report a syntax error.
The
edit program is identical to ex, except that some editor option defaults are altered to make the edi-
tor somewhat friendlier for beginning and casual users (see Editor Options below).
Options and Arguments
ex recognizes the following command-line options and arguments:
- (Obsolescent) Suppress all interactive-user feedback. This is useful when editor commands
are taken from scripts.
-s (XPG4 only.)
Suppress all interactive-user feedback. This is useful when editor commands are taken
from scripts.
Ignore the value of the TERM and any implementation terminal type and assume the ter-
minal is a type incapable of supporting visual mode.
Suppress the use of the EXINIT environment variable and the reading of the .exrc file.
-l Set the lisp editor option (see Editor Options below).
-r Recover the specified files after an editor or system crash. If no file is specified, a list of all
saved files is printed. You must be the owner of the saved file in order to recover it
(superuser cannot recover files owned by other users).
-R Set the readonly editor option to prevent overwriting a file inadvertently (see Editor
Options below).
-t tag (XPG4 only.) Edit the file containing the specified tag and proceed as if the first command
were
:tag tag. The tags represented by the -t tag and the ta command is optional. It
shall be provided on any system that also provides a confirming implementation of ctags,
Otherwise, the use of the
-t produces undefined results.
Execute the tag tag command to load and position a predefined file. See the tag com-
mand in Command Descriptions and the tags editor option in Editor Options below.
-v Invoke visualmode (vi).
-w size Set the value of the window editor option to size (see Editor Options below). If size is
omitted, it defaults to 3.
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