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[ale] ed

And of course you would've  had to retype your example to make it
workee..

-- CHS

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:43, Geoffrey wrote:
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, but back in the day it was better than:
> > 
> > 
> > echo "Line 1" > script
> > echo "Line 2" >> script
> > echo "Line 3" > script
> > 
> > etc which I had to do some times.
> 
> Oh yeah.  I and can recall using ed in scripts with here docs to modify 
> files.  I actually wrote a rudimentary editor that used 'ed.'  Upon 
> request as it was completely stupid.