Re: rarp

[Karl Hammar <karl@kalle.csb.ki.se>]

  $ sed  '1d' ascii.h > tt.h
  $ diff ascii.h tt.h 
  1d0
  < /*#define NUL '\000'*/

Regards,
/Karl

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From: Andrew Stribblehill <a.d.stribblehill@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: rarp
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:42:05 +0100

> Quoting Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>:
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:53:16AM +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> > > 	ed -s <<'eof' | while read line; do rarp -d $line; done
> > > r !/sbin/rarp -a
> > > 1d
> > > %s/ .*$//
> > > %p
> > > eof
> > 
> > Ooooh.  An ed script.  Break out your mood rings and fondue pots, we're
> > gonna have a tupperware party.
> > 
> > Sorry.  Like the coelacanth, these beasts aren't often found in the wild
> > anymore, having been largely driven from their ecological niche by sed,
> > awk, and perl.  :)
> 
> You just do this to wind people up, don't you?! OK, I'll take the
> bait...
> 
> Ed scripts are a perfect way to edit files in-place,
> programmatically. Awk and sed are basically stream editors, and
> perl is most comfortable in this mode too.
> 
> However, I seem to have shot myself in the foot since I admit,
> this script of mine ain't editing a file...
> 
> Just out of interest, how does one delete the first line in a sed
> script? Damn thing always takes me a good 30 secs to fathom what
> it does every time I look at it. And yes, I wrote it!
> 
> Cheerio,
> 
> Andrew Stribblehill
> Systems programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England