[NTLUG:Discuss] Quickest way to edit file?
Lance Simmons
simmons.lance at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 10:55:02 CDT 2007
On 7/23/07, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
> For a single address ...
> grep -v regex original_file > new_file
I've done something similar with sed a few times, but it still leaves
the extra step of renaming new_file back to original_file.
For some reason, that extra step is the problem for me -- apparently
it is too taxing for my feeble brain, because it slows me down every
time. Did I come up with a unique name for new_file? Did I mess up
when I renamed new_file back to original_file? Am I sure I don't now
have _three_ files instead of one? That I didn't just delete
everything by accident? Better check on that... and so on. By the time
I get finished, I could have done the job with vi many times over:
vi file /suitable-pattern-fragment dd :wq
So maybe vi is the fastest way for someone as easily confused as me.
--
Lance Simmons
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