Re: newbie - Remove blank lines

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 03:04:17 am Jens Herden wrote:
> But if you do it your way you have the problem that sed is reading from the
> file on the disk and writing to the disk again. If you want to use sed more
> efficiently with Quanta you better use is as a filter, reading from stdin
> and writing to stdout. This way Quanta can pipe the content of the current
> editor through it and would not work with the file on the disk.

I am sure you are right.  I've never used it that way, only from the command 
line.

> > Checking --help for -e tells me it's for adding an external script to
> > execution and takes a filename for an arg.
>
> But this _is_ wrong ;-) If you want to give an external file you would use
> -f and -e is to give the expression as argument directly.

You are right, my mistake.  I read "script" to mean "file" but there is also  
a "script-file".

-Alan

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