try with ssam(1).

% ssam -f thatscriptofyours somefile


-rodri

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 11:17 AM <revcomninos@gmail.com> wrote:

> In ed I have a cleanup script which I can apply to several files at once.
> The script removes things like blank lines and spaces between words. To run
> it on a file or multiple files, I type this command:
> ed [name of file(s)] < cleanup-script
> I converted all the regular expressions in the file into sam regex format
> and tried the same, but to no avail.  Here is a list of some of the
> commands:
>
> .x s/\*//g
> ,x/^ +/s///
> ,x/ +$/s///
> ,x/  +/s// /
> ,x/^$\n/d
> ,x/‘‘|’’/s//"/
> ,x/“|”/s//"/
> ,x/‘|’/s//"/
> ,x/^ +/s///
> ,x/ +$/s///
> ,x/  +/s// /
> ,x/^$\n/d
> ,x/‘‘|’’/s//"/
> ,x/“|”/s//"/
> ,x/‘|’/s//"/
> ,x/teh/c/the/
> wq
>
> I am not even sure sam can do this, but if it can, I would appreciate
> some guidance on how to do it.
>
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