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From: bjs@scampi.UUCP (Brian J. Smithson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Is there a 'sed'-like editor for VMS?
Message-ID: <202@scampi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 20:24:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: scampi.202
Posted: Fri Jun 26 20:24:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jun-87 01:13:05 EDT
References: <8706251310.AA19744@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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Organization: Systems Control, Palo Alto, CA
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Summary: remember teco?

In article <8706251310.AA19744@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, gregg@a.cs.okstate.EDU writes:
> dan@leadsv.UUCP (Dan Gold):
> > 
> > Does anyone out there have or know of a program like UNIX 'sed' for VMS?
> > We need the 'sed' capability of specifying a series of operations to be
> > performed on a series of files.  [...]
> 
> Probably the thing to do here is to use your favorite editor, like TPU since
> it has the most powerful pattern recognition stuff, and write a command file
> that recognizes SED commands.  [...]

I used to use TECO as a sed-like editor (using the "MUNG" command to invoke
TECO).  It's cryptic (even more so than sed!) and using it for regular
expressions is a bit barbaric, but it works!

You also might consider shipping those files to a *real* computer :-) and
processing them with sed...

-Brian Smithson
 Scicon, Systems Control
 Palo Alto, CA