.TH PED 1df "May 2017" "Manual page for ped" .SH NAME .B ped \- stop a pipe for $EDITOR intervention .SH SYNOPSIS prog1 | .B ped | prog2 .SH DESCRIPTION .B ped saves all its standard input into a temporary file and runs $EDITOR, or ed(1) if unset, on that file. Once the editor exits, it emits the contents of the same file (changed or unchanged). This can be used as a way to edit data manually as it goes through a pipe. .SH SEE ALSO pst(1df), pvi(1df) .SH AUTHOR Tom Ryder