Re: ed: please give me a little control over appending final newlines

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Andrew L. Moore) writes:

|> Format conversion is better handled separately:
|> 
|> #!/bin/sh -
|> #
|> #    @(#)jed
|> #
|> # This script is an ed(1) front-end for handling arbitrary file formats.
|> #
|> umask 077
|> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
|>  
|> TMP="unix-format.$$"
|>  
|> argv=""
|> while [ $# -ne 1 ]; do argv="$argv \"$1\""; shift; done
|> pathname="$1"
|>  
|> eval set -- "$argv"

This will treat all $ and \ and " that occured in the original arg list as
meta characters.

|>  
|> case $(file "$pathname") in
|> *'CRLF line terminators'*)
|>     trap 'rm -f "$TMP"; exit' 0 1 2 15
|>     msdos2unix <"$pathname" >"$TMP"
|>     if [ ."$@" = . ]; then ed "$TMP"; else ed "$@" "$TMP"; fi
             ^^^^

This will expand to more than one word if $# > 1, probably giving a
syntax error from test.  The test is not nessary at all, just use the
else branch unconditionally.

Andreas.

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