>> For such an example, I'd use a combination of :put with the
>> expression register, which takes a list:
>>
>> :put=[var, 'line2', '.', 'that was a line with 1 period']
Just to be clear, I should have said ":put with the expression
register, which *can take* a list"...it's not limited to a list,
but for doing multiple lines, it's a very nice way to do it.
>>> b) Has ex an option such as -s (meaning string) so that a sh user
>>> could write the previous example this way
>>> sh -s '%s/pattern/replace/g | w' file
>>> (bash or zsh users can already use<<< for this, but I need sh in my
>>> case). What I don't like about ex ...<<EOF, is that it looks weird in
>>> an indented script (the here document must be stuck to the left margin it
>>> seems)
>
> And in fact I even meant ex.
> My question is, is it possible to pass commands to ex without stdin?
> (-c does not do exactly the same thing)
How are you finding that "-c does not do exactly the same thing"?
I just issued:
bash$ seq 20 > test.txt
bash$ ex -c '10s/$/hello' -c '15>' -c 'wq' test.txt
and it did exactly what I expected, executing both the substitute
on line 10 and the indentation of line 15, followed by writing
and quitting the file.
-tim
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