qauestion using ed.

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Thu Aug 3 00:28:03 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:59:03PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >	Guys,
> >
> >	How, pray tel, do I use ed to delete 23 lines?  I can find "foo"
> >	with /foo, but then .,20d or .,+20d or .,+20 d don't work.
> 
> .,.+20d
> 
> <dot><comma><dot>+20d
> 
> If you use the ``ex'' invocation of vi(m), ``20dd'' should do it.
> 
> Bill

	Thankee!  This works for most /patterns, but "<script...."
	gives me a bizarre err.  This is part of aa javascript cmd
	I'm  trying to get rid of.  I've simplified the /pattern to
	/<script type as below.   Still get the stuff to stderr.  
	Any idea what?  

	gary



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   Gary Kline     kline at thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix


for files in *.php
do
        echo $files
        /usr/bin/ex - $files <<\!

/<script type
.,.+10 d
.
w
q
!
done
sync;sync



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