[Discuss] "M-" notation

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Fri Jul 6 13:48:15 EDT 2012


On 07/06/2012 01:34 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 7/6/2012 11:27 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> I've found that sed(1) tends to work well for me in my scripts. What I
>> do in the scripts is something like:
>
> sed works, too.  I find tr to be easier/quicker to use than sed for
> simple transformations.  I use sed for more significant edits.
>
My scripts have multiple -e parameters, so I prefer sed.

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