▲ | Brian_K_White a day ago | |||||||||||||
I think ed also served the function of sed and patch. Ie you could record a bunch of edits into a file and it could read the script and perform all the edits to some input file. So it was more useful than an interactive line based editor sounds. | ||||||||||||||
▲ | layer8 a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
This is the same distinction as between running commands with bash -c (or just by executing a regular Bash script) and running them manually in an interactive Bash session. It’s pretty much an inherent feature of command-line interfaces that you can script them. | ||||||||||||||
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