[geeks] regex question, I suppose...

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 dave at cca.org wrote:

> pwargo at basenji.com writes:
> 
> >Reminds me of the time I watched a scientist trying to do a search &
> >replace on a 5M sequence file using vi over NFS... He came to me in
> >frustration after 2 hours had passed... I showed him a single-line sed
> >that did it in 18 seconds...  Sometimes, the old ways are the best.
> 
> Of course if you can do it in one line of sed, then you can use the
> same command in vi...

Yes, but the difference in speed is amazing, as you are not trying to
do it in an interactive editor...

-P