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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:40:01 +1000 Stuart Longland |
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> <stuartl@××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> | Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream |
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> | EDitor -- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text |
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> | into stdin, give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout. |
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> So? Both are primarily used as core system utilities, not as editors, so |
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> they stay in sys-apps. |
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Yes... but in the "core utility role" what does sed and ed do? Edit |
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files & streams. They are scripted editors -- and should be recognised |
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as such. |
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| I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | |
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