In-reply-to » 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 $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.

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