Thanks, although it wasn't meant to be a bat. :) Because ed is on plan 9, Solaris, Linux, and Mac, out of the box and pretty consistently, I used it as a real interactive editor for a while, after Brantley Coile told me that using it made a difference in the way he thought about his code.<br>
<br>I found it to be a surprisingly useful editor and am fond of it now even though I've gone back to using bigger, less ubiquitous interactive editors.<br><br>There's a funny page about ed that y'all might have already seen:<br>
<br> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg">http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I must now add ed to my daily tool pile. grep, awk [s]ed, vi[m], bash.<br><br>That was a very good "clue bat" on why ed should still be used. a 1M line file would be easy for ed but pain for sed.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ed Cashin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net" target="_blank">ecashin@noserose.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="h5">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks for mentioning the non-stream editor! They made sed for streams, because ed is for files. It is at times like this when I sincerely regret the way distros are beginning to omit ed for the first time in decades.<br>
<br>There's an ed move command called "m". Move this line to that line. The one liner below does the same thing as this interactive session<br><br>$m0<br>w<br>q<br><br>ecashin@reynolds:~$ head /etc/passwd | nl > ~/tmp/a<br>
ecashin@reynolds:~$ cp ~/tmp/a ~/tmp/b<br>ecashin@reynolds:~$ printf '$m0\nw\nq\n' | ed ~/tmp/b<br>414<br>414<br>ecashin@reynolds:~$ diff -u ~/tmp/a ~/tmp/b<br>--- /home/ecashin/tmp/a 2012-03-28 21:40:25.000000000 -0400<br>
+++ /home/ecashin/tmp/b 2012-03-28 21:41:44.000000000 -0400<br>@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@<br>+ 10 news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh<br> 1 root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash<br> 2 daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh<br>
3 bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh<br>@@ -7,4 +8,3 @@<br> 7 man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh<br> 8 lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh<br> 9 mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh<br>- 10 news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh<br>
ecashin@reynolds:~$ <br><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com" target="_blank">Richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Be careful doing this with large files. You are storing the whole file<br>
in memory.<br>
<br>
I would do this in 2 passes.<br>
<br>
# First get the last line into a new file. (assuming the file in<br>
question is passed in as the first argument)<br>
tail -n1 $1 > $1.mod<br>
# Second add the rest of the file, less the last line.<br>
sed '$d' $1 >> $1.mod<br>
<br>
This is working with streams. It requires an additional $filesize of<br>
disk space, but it does not require $filesize of RAM.<br>
<br>
If you want to be really efficient, use ed. ;-)<br>
# This will trim the last line of the file in place, but I'm not<br>
taking the time to figure out how to add it to the beginning.<br>
ed "$1" << EOF<br>
$<br>
d<br>
w<br>
EOF<br>
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