[ale] sed
James P. Kinney III
jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri May 18 09:26:56 EDT 2007
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:02 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> For those of us who are old enough to have used 'ed' prior to 'vi' you
> can do what you want with 'ed' and a 'here document' as follows:
>
> ed inputfile << ENDHERE
> 1,$ s/abc/xyz/g
> w
> q
> ENDHERE
Someone asks a _simple_ *NIX question and all the geezers dust off their
old neurons and start wheezing back answers "well, back in the days
before we had both bits and bytes..."
:)
Nice to know editing has improved so much.
Hmm. Maybe editors are too easy now and that's why there is so much code
bloat.
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