How to write a literal dot in ed?

Question

What would be the right way to write a line containing only . to a file in ed? The only way I came up with is something like this:

a
.
s/^$/./

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '12 at 13:09

3

the no shell way,

a
a.
.
s/a//

answered Dec 10 '12 at 13:09

Rony

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 22 '12 at 22:10

0

A bit round about, but use shell redirection:

r !echo .

answered Aug 22 '12 at 22:10

Thor

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