On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:32:28PM +0200, Dorian B|ttner wrote: > Steve Shockley schrieb: > > > > Had a royal PITA the other day when I misspelled "softdep" in the > >/usr line in fstab, and didn't know how to use ed. > > > > No prob w/o ed :) You can just cat /etc/fstab | grep -v usr >> > /etc/fstab.new followed by echo '<whatever>' >> /etc/fstab.new and then > mv everything to it's correct destination.
Were he stranded without /usr (and so, without grep, at least on OpenBSD), Steve would not have been able to do that (and if you can mount /usr, just ust vi(1)). A little more than one year ago, Matthias Kilian posted a nice bit of "ed advocacy" to this list: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=117565306629772
