[ale] Off the wall vi question

[kaboom at oobleck.net (Chris Ricker)]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Geoffrey wrote:

> tom sawyer wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I was just wondering, is it possible to have a *sh
> > script call vi and then execute commands inside of vi?
> >  Or, is it possible to load a file in vi that
> > automatically runs commands/aliases/etc?
> 
> You want to use either sed or ed with a HERE doc.  ed with a HERE doc is 
> likely to be a better solution as you edit a single file in place, where 
> as sed is going to require input and output files, whereas the HERE doc 
> will edit the file in place.

modern sed has a -i option to edit in place

later,
chris