Re: diff and sed

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:54:20AM -0600, John E Guillory ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This isn't a perl question explicitly (but I am a librarian!). And it's sort of Perl-related because Larry Wall wrote patch years and years ago, before Perl was invented. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: diff and sed

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:54:20AM -0600, John E Guillory ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This isn't a perl question explicitly (but I am a librarian!). > > I want to diff two files to generate a third file that contains edits. This > third file of edits I can then apply to the first file to convert

diff and sed

This isn't a perl question explicitly (but I am a librarian!). I want to diff two files to generate a third file that contains edits. This third file of edits I can then apply to the first file to convert it into the seconf file by running it through either sed or ed. I see references to this