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From: dealwisb@cognos.com (Brian de Alwis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Port of ed/edit
Keywords: editors
Message-ID: <1992Jul31.001058.16926@cognos.com>
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:10:58 GMT
References: <2413@nic.cerf.net>
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Lines: 16
In article <2413@nic.cerf.net> greggb@nic.cerf.net (Gregg Brekke) writes:
>Has anyone ported ed (preferred) or edit for 386bsd. I use it in a lot
>of scripts and don't feel like doing all the substitutions by hand.
Try this:
-----8<-----CUT-HERE-----8<-----
# ed - invoke ex, as it's backward-compatible-enough-to-pass-for-ed
ex $*
-----8<-----CUT-HERE-----8<-----
It's ugly, but it works.
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+++BdA Brian de Alwis. Brain on loan to Cognos Inc, Ottawa, Ontario.
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