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Introduced a colleague to ed(1) today. “Ohh, that’s nice. I always wanted to have a tool like that.” 🥳 (This refers strictly to ed’s ability to edit files from a script. Like, “search for regex
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$foo
, go down five lines, now search for $bar
from here, then change $x
to $y
in the matching line.”)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I only used sed(1)
over all those years so far. And about 99.9% the substitute command alone. Gotta have a look at its brother.