On Nov 30, 2009, at 23:16 , Phil Pennock wrote:
See, you're editing a file.  I do wonder why people fixate on stream
processing tools for editing a file, when there are command-line
interfaces available to script file-editing. And no, {sed -i} is still
stream-orientated.

Agreed, but I took it as presented. Also, at one point I noticed that some Linux distributions didn't install ed by default; I don't know if this is still true.

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