Like Aliens on that movie!
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One edits files in place, interactively. The other edits streams i.e.batch processing.
You want sed -i -f -
ed is also the precursor of sed, and of some other dozen of commands.
No, we don't. This is a completely unrelated problem.
Keep your requirements orthogonal, people!!!
Somehow, despite being the standard it doesn't come installed by default in any distro I've tried.
They all insist you use sed... that bloated thing!
I guess it would be too hard to write a light-headed adventure cartoon where one of the main protagonists is an anti-hero. For comedy it's easier.
Even then, I remember he is always wrong and almost kills everybody all the time.
To be fair, the biggest footguns are the trigraphs, and now that I tested those do require a flag in gcc.
The digraphs are just hard to search, never used operator symbols.
They get to New Zealand, and it's a complete utopia. When they try to ask if their oil didn't run out, they just answer that they stopped using that stuff decades ago.
Duck Tales is about the only publication that has him as a good guy.
spending cycles trawling through everything
Beats spending cycles indexing everything and never search them.
A strong tourism industry in a small city does displace everything else. It's one version of the Dutch disease that actually happens even when the government doesn't actively cause it.
There are blood exams that replace both. There have been for years.
Each one of them screwed up independently. It takes a concerted effort to reach this situation.