Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:33:44 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editor Message-ID: <20100602113344.GA3995@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20100602112644.GA90934@ei.bzerk.org> References: <201005311636.o4VGarkt001701@mail.r-bonomi.com> <87zkzgx8rd.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100531203115.GA2167@guilt.hydra> <4C04AD94.7040706@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100601130946.GB5717@guilt.hydra> <20100601161022.GB36228@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100602061001.GB7993@guilt.hydra> <AANLkTinwdnsotaCIGzNSvqaXmaQ_hiI2qQyc_wW4-EHz@mail.gmail.com> <20100602112644.GA90934@ei.bzerk.org>
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El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 01:26:44PM +0200, Ruben de Groot escribió: > > The phrase "son of an edlin" has happily been retired in my vocabulary for > > some time. If you're not aware of it, ed(1) is as capable or more of > > causing pain as edlin was and it's still in the FreeBSD base. > > Most usefull traditional Unix tools can cause pain or foot-shooting. That's > what makes them usefull. The ed(1) is *extremely* useful when it comes to editing text files on the fly in shell scripts (i.e. without user interaction). matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre!
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