Re: ed scripts in Windows command shell

[randall . harp]

On May 14, 4:24 pm, randall.h...@gmail.com wrote:
> Although I have experience with diff and ed on *nix, I just can't seem
> to get ed to work in the Win32 environment (cmd.exe).
>
> diff -e oldfile newfile > script.ed
>
> gives the proper ed commands, but any variation of
>
> type script.ed | ed oldfile > result
>
> just won't work: I get either an empty result, or the last line of the
> original file repeated a few times in the result. I've tried 'for'
> loops with 'echo' and 'type', appending 'w' and 'q' commands to
> script.ed, and all sorts of variations. Still no luck.
>
> Has anyone had success using 'ed' commands with Win32?
>
> P.S. I want to use the 'ed' output from diff, since several 'ed'
> commands can be concatenated together to apply several changes -
> unlike 'context' and 'unified' diffs that have to be appiled
> individually against each intermediate result.

P.P.S.

I'm trying to use the GnuWin32 ed utility.