Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Otherwise use ed(1). It even works with dumb terminals or > > no $TERM at all. Using ed(1) isn't difficult, especially > > if you only need to replace a single line in a config file. > > Every admin should know how to do that. :-) > > yuck. just use ee(1).
Yuck. ee is horrible. :-) > Nice + sweet + doesn't care about termcap :) It does care. I just tried it from within a jterm: It puts a mess on the screen and it even took me some efforts to only quit out of it. Besides, ee(1) lives in /usr/bin, while ed(1) is in the root filesystem so it's available in single user mode when you can't mount /usr for some reason. Also note that ed(1) is available on every UNIX system, so a serious UNIX admin should be familiar with it (at least to the point to be able to perform emergency surgery on files until another editor -- e.g. vi -- can be used). BTW, the Solaris manpage still says: "The ed utility is the standard text editor." :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.
