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Offline hiro

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requesting ed
« on: March 15, 2013, 07:51:09 AM »
as we ship with sed and even vi, why don't we have the standard text editor in base?
I use ed for editing files in place instead of streaming with hacky workarounds like
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sed 's/a/b/' file > tempfile; mv tempfile file

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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 08:03:56 AM »
Please do not break Core's core philosophy requesting addition ad-hoc applications to base.

You are welcome to submit ed.tcz if you are missing it.
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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 08:12:29 AM »
I'm not breaking anything, just trying to retrace and reevaluate the thoughts that led to the current choice of base applications.

I'm quite happy with having busybox as an alternative to these bloated GNU core utilities, but that also means there's no way I'll be using coreutils for anything.

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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 08:19:43 AM »
You are welcome to submit ed.tcz built from BusyBox.
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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2013, 08:23:53 AM »
Honestly i haven't considered compiling statically just one program out of busybox like that. In my mind I only saw the huge busybox binary and didn't see a good way of making this a slick additional package.

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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 08:55:55 AM »
Why not dynamically linking additional busybox applets, when busybox in base is already dynamically linked?
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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2013, 08:58:23 AM »
sed -i 's/a/b/' file

Offline hiro

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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2013, 09:12:32 AM »
Why not dynamically linking additional busybox applets, when busybox in base is already dynamically linked?

I thought static would be simple and failsafe, so I didn't think further, wasn't even aware busybox in tc is dynamically linked.

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Re: requesting ed
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2013, 09:16:11 AM »
sed -i 's/a/b/' file

heh, I didn't even know our busybox version supports -i.
I have some other scripts lying around that use ed because sed -i doesn't exist on some systems without GNU software.
I'm considering changing my usage of ed to sed -i, but not sure yet, will have to check some of those other systems first.