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From: eli@panda.uucp (Eli Taub/100000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ed script
Summary: r file1
Keywords: ed, delete to end
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Date: 2 Jul 90 17:42:02 GMT
References: <1990Jun30.060610.9287@clark.uucp>
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In article <1990Jun30.060610.9287@clark.uucp> ade@clark.uucp (Adrian Miranda) writes:
>My apologies if this is obvious, I don't know anything about ed, and
>really don't want to 8-).
>
>Could someone tell me how to write an ed script that will read in a
>file, find the line containing a ')', delete all lines which follow,
>then append another file to what remains of the first?  I'm afraid it
>does have to be ed, it will go on a boot floppy that doesn't have room
>for much else.
>
>Please mail it to me, this is unlikely to appeal to anyone else.

Sorry, I don't think I can email anything...

>
>Adrian Miranda
>uunet!clark!ade

The following lines should do the trick:

r file1
/)/+1,$d
r file2
w
q
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