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Re: [PATCH] ed with perl-compatible regular expressions
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Paul Jackson |
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Re: [PATCH] ed with perl-compatible regular expressions |
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Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:08:10 -0500 |
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> Because unlike most other editors, ed is lightweight, simple and easy
> to use in a shell script.
That reason I find a bit more persuasive. Now and then I too use ed(1)
in shell scripts.
However ...
Either such a script will be used by others, on systems I don't manage, or they
won't.
If it's for others, I could only rely on the most primitive ed(1) options that
should
be universally available on any such system.
If just for my own use, then I could easily enough run my private version of ed
with the enhanced options that I couldn't sell up stream, which actually is what
I do, for a "multifile" option that I was unable to sell upstream, years ago.
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Paul Jackson
pj@usa.net
Re: [PATCH] ed with perl-compatible regular expressions, Shawn Wagner, 2021/07/27