[NTLUG:Discuss] In-place file editor

[Leroy Tennison]

Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> Leroy Tennison writes:
> - Looking for a scriptable (non-interactive) program which will modify a 
> - text file without deleting the original and replacing it with a new 
> - one.
>
> 	ed(1) fed via a here-document?
>
> 	Since ed(1) accepts commands from stdin (and not the
> tty) you can easily feed it a here-document of commands to do
> the appropriate edits.
>
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> Eric Schnoebelen		eric at cirr.com		http://www.cirr.com
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I'll check it out, thanks.