I think the second line should start with 1,/^--/ g... Unless forward slashes aren't required to indicate a regex based address. One thing I do to create

I think the second line should start with 1,/^--/ g... Unless forward slashes aren't required to indicate a regex based address. One thing I do to create my ed scripts is to actually read the output of ls with some file pattern and then use a vim macro to edit the output as follows: ed <<EOF e file1 commands w e file2 commands w ... wq EOF The gnu info page for ed is a very good reference to determine what commands are available and how addressing works.