While playing around with ex, I found one another script which is using "ed" to edit the files without actually opening them. Lets say in a text file, you want to insert particular string "Sunday is a Holiday" before every line on which the word Monday is found. Here is how you can write .ed script.
#####SCRIPT BEGINS#####
#!/bin/sh
TERM=vt100
export TERM
ed -s $1 "<<"MYEOF >/dev/null
1
/Monday/
i
Sunday is a holiday
.
w
q
MYEOF
#
exit 0
#####SCRIPT ENDS#####
Run the script as
bash-2.05$./test.ed abc.txt
So many hidden gems there!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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