kriso@lombard.dartmouth.edu (Kris Olander) (02/20/91)
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