On May 14, 4:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Although I have experience with diff and ed on *nix, I just can't seem > to get ed to work in the Win32 environment (cmd.exe). > > diff -e oldfile newfile > script.ed > > gives the proper ed commands, but any variation of > > type script.ed | ed oldfile > result > > just won't work: I get either an empty result, or the last line of the > original file repeated a few times in the result. I've tried 'for' > loops with 'echo' and 'type', appending 'w' and 'q' commands to > script.ed, and all sorts of variations. Still no luck. > > Has anyone had success using 'ed' commands with Win32? > > P.S. I want to use the 'ed' output from diff, since several 'ed' > commands can be concatenated together to apply several changes - > unlike 'context' and 'unified' diffs that have to be appiled > individually against each intermediate result.
P.P.S. I'm trying to use the GnuWin32 ed utility.
