I suppose that's not what you meant, but I cannot stop thinking of the poor sysadmin whose files keep getting unexpectedly trimmed to exactly 397 lines. Also,

I suppose that's not what you meant, but I cannot stop thinking of the poor sysadmin whose files keep getting unexpectedly trimmed to exactly 397 lines. Also, btw, you can absolutely use ed in scripts [0], but this is also something that I would pity the maintainer of. [0] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/brian/entry/ed_editor https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/brian/ent...