Re: repair comb-quoting (one-liner definition)

"[email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]> 08 Feb 2016 10:22:42 -0800
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> One-liner's a characterization for humans, 
 > not a syntactic entity for machines.
 

 Yes, "one-liner" is a characterization for humans. But I never suggested that "one-liner" is a "syntactic entity for machines". So I don't understand the comment.
 

 What I did suggest was that it seems wrong to say that a long script "can be made into a 1-liner by putting each uncommented line in an -e '....' block, to get as many -e '...' blocks as the number of lines". I won't repeat the reasoning here, please refer back to and respond to my previous post.
 

 I also suggested that, in the lack of a formal definition anywhere of the commonly used term "one-liner", "short script written on one line" might serve. I was asking for comments (agree?, disagree?) on that definition of "one-liner".
 

 Thanks,
 Daniel
 



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