This is even more common in the world of containers where “nice to have just for debugging” get omitted.
You haven’t lived till you have to edit using only sed.
There is definitely something to be said about having minimalistic container images for security and smaller sizes...
But not having a basic text editor that is probably a few hundred KB feels a bit silly, especially given how many environment dependencies usually get packaged into containers anyways.
That's like not including any sort of a shell in your container and wondering why people are having troubles with debugging.
Personally, i think that just basing container images on something like Alpine, Debian or even Ubuntu images is good enough because those are stripped down enough already for the most part.
Of course you add a sane editor after it happens. But that first time…
Re:GNU nano is my editor of choice
by trissylegs on Friday August 13, 2021 @07:37PM
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I did build a arch Linux install using cat <<EOF, grep and sed. But golly it gets tedious
Sounds like pain, but also a means to getting better at sed.
I agree this is pretty much a non issue for the average developer, but those of us who work on network infrastructure, as red-team hackers, or do any work on embedded systems can attest to how much of a pain it would be to not know how to use vi/vim.