[BusyBox] bug#1269: Ed applet

Paul Whittaker paw at si1.dod.gov.au
Fri Sep 20 14:16:03 UTC 2002


Package: busybox
Version: 0.60.4
Severity: wishlist

It would be useful to include an "ed" applet in addition to "vi" and 
"sed".  This is not so much for use as an interactive editor as for use 
as an in-place batch editor.  The same effect can be achieved using a 
combination of "sed" and "mv", but this is much more cumbersome.  I 
frequently use ed with here documents in my shell scripting (ie. ed -s 
some-file >/dev/null <<EOF ed-commands... EOF).




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