Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package"):
> I don't think ex is in the base system. Are you suggesting that an
> implementation of it should be added ? On my system here it seems to
> be provided by vim.tiny and /usr/bin/ex is 20x the size of /bin/ed.
Another reason to want ed is that in some circumstances there is only
room for ed. So users familiar with these situations become used to
using `ed' which is more likely to be available.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46572 Feb 25 2014 /bin/ed*
The binary package is about 55k depending on arch.
Ian.
