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                      2: .TH EDSCRIPT 1 "The University of Arizona \- 3/27/83"
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: edscript \- generate script for ed(1)
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: \f3edscript\fP
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: \fIEdscript\fP takes specifications for global edits from standard input
                      9: and outputs an edit script for \fIed(1)\fR to standard output.
                     10: \fIEdscript\fR is primarily useful for making complicated literal
                     11: substitutions that involve characters that have syntactic meaning
                     12: to \fIed(1)\fR and hence are difficult to enter in \fIed(1)\fR.
                     13: .PP
                     14: Each specification begins with a delimiter, followed by a target string,
                     15: followed by the delimiter, followed by the replacement string, followed
                     16: by the delimiter.
                     17: For example
                     18: .DS
                     19: |...|**|
                     20: |****||
                     21: .DE
                     22: specifies the replacement of all occurrences of three consecutive periods by two
                     23: asterisks, followed by the deletion of all occurrences of four
                     24: consecutive asterisks.
                     25: Any character may be used for the delimiter, but the same character
                     26: must be used in all three positions in any specification, and the
                     27: delimiter character cannot be used in the target or replacement
                     28: strings.
                     29: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     30: Any line that does not have proper delimiter structure is noted
                     31: and does not contribute to the edit script.
                     32: .SH SEE ALSO
                     33: ed(1)
                     34: .SH AUTHOR
                     35: Ralph E. Griswold

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