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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 12:18:42 -0400
From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1
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Crist J. Clark <cjc@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Well, since everyone else seems to have an opinion as to the color of
> the sed(1) shed...
> 
> I think sed(1) is the wrong tool for this. We already have a tool that
> does "inline" editing, ed(1),
> 
>   $ ed somefile.txt <<EOF
>   ,s/blah/blee/
>   wq
>   EOF
> 
> IMHO, it would be much more logical to add an '-i' option to ed(1) and
> an '-e' option for command line ed commands,
> 
>   $ ed -i old -e ',s/blah/blee/' somefile.txt
> 
> (And the 'wq' are implied by the usage). A lot of the other issues
> (handling file operations) are already dealt with in ed(1).

I prefer cp(1) for copying files, but I think the -e part is good a
idea.

For now, ports can just use:
`(echo ",s/foo/bar/" ; echo "wq") | ed baz.txt'
...to do search and replace.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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