On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 10:26 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote:
> >
> >On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:45 +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Perhaps omeone might answer this tricky problem. I can do this other
> >> ways, but i really want to understand how to solve it using ed. I have
> >> one solution using g/re/s/re//txt/ , but I want to understand how or if
> >> i can solve it using the ed (.)a command.
> ><snip>
> Instead of ``ed' one can use ``ex'' which should be in any distribution as
> its part of ``vi'' or ``vim''. I think the command set of ``ed'' is a
> subset of ``ex'' so scripts should work the same.
Further, it *may* be that the "superset" that is available in ex can
overcome of few of the deficiencies and hurdles that his use of ed is
presenting. Because of my background, I never read about or learned the
full ex stuff - vi(m), sed, (g)awk, bash, ... all did what I needed.
Maybe if the OP reviews the ex stuff he'll have an easier time of it.
Only potential downside I see is maybe a little more overhead and the
need for vi(m)/ex on the target system. *Usually* they are there, but
maybe someone is a "minimalist" there?
>
> I frequently use the gnu shtool program for this sort of thing unless the
> job is very simple, and I really want to edit the file in place.
>
> Bill
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Bill (the other one)
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