Thanks for the tips. I put them in a file, because I saw someone using ed last year in a script and started looking at ex from there. diff -e file1 file2 >

Thanks for the tips. I put them in a file, because I saw someone using ed last year in a script and started looking at ex from there. diff -e file1 file2 > ed_script Using echo (along with your other suggestions) is probably better for that example.