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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: sed question
Message-ID: <916@turtlevax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 15:10:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: turtleva.916
Posted: Mon Sep 30 15:10:45 1985
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Reply-To: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
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Organization: CADLINC, Inc. @ Menlo Park, CA
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Summary: 

In article <1492@uwmacc.UUCP> jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
>sed(1) allows you to give the script on the command line like this:
>
>	sed -e 'script' file1 > file2
>
>Some of the sed commands, like a\ and i\ seem to need additional
>lines of input.  I know that if I use the "-f sedfile" option I
>can stash the commands in a file, but is there a way I can use
>"append" and "insert" with the -e option?

No problem.  Just don't try to do it with the C-shell.  Switch to the
Bourne shell first, open the script with a ' type in multiple lines,
then end it with a '.
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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