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commit c9eedbd59fab0bbcf685d5924d41be073d738622 (patch)
parent c4b49add960e6aa0d309e0705b37c0a731fdc772
Author: Alex Karle <alex@alexkarle.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:15:52 -0400

ed: Add BSD ed(1) support to `bed` wrapper

I prefer to use -v for verbose messages if I'm using a
version of ed that supports it (i.e. GNU ed). OpenBSD's
ed(1) does not, so we need to check if --version succeeds
first.

Diffstat:
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bin/bed
 | 
7
++++++-

1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/bin/bed b/bin/bed
@@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ done
 
 export INPUTRC="$HOME/etc/edinputrc"
 
+# Only include -v if using GNU ed
+if ed --version >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+    VERBOSE="-v"
+fi
+
 exec rlwrap \
     --complete-filenames \
     --logfile /tmp/rled.log \
     --histsize 10000 $COMP \
     --extra-char-after-completion '' \
-    ed -v -p"> " "$@"
+    ed $VERBOSE -p"> " "$@"