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From: kriso@lombard.dartmouth.edu (Kris Olander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: ed(1) Bug with input redirection. hp/ux 7.0
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Date: 19 Feb 91 21:45:34 GMT
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The following script snipit will fail to do what
it's suppose to do -- ie: delete the first line of
/tmp/file.x.

------------------------------------------------
ed /tmp/file.x << stop > /dev/null
1d
w
q
stop
-------------------------------------------------

If you don't redirect the output to /dev/null,
you'll see two or three '?' which seems to indicate
that ed(1) isn't happy with the input.

This code was in a Makefile so it was running
under sh, however, we verified that it doesn't
matter whether this is done in sh or csh.

We've worked around this by using sed(1) instead.


-- 
Kris Olander
--------------kris.olander@dartmouth.edu----------------
"My thought, my whole thoughts, and nothing but my thoughts,
  so help me God",  -- My stdclaimer