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    Per Amundsen, 08/09/2018 05:02 PM 
    
    
Added in 1.9.0
/write [-cidnaiNmN l<line> s<text> w<wildcard> r</regex/>] <filename> [text]
Writes lines to a text file.
Switches
-c - Clears the entire file before writing to it.
-i - Inserts the text at a given line instead of replacing it.
-d - Deletes the given or last line.
-n - Prevent adding $crlf at the end of the text.
-a - Appends the text to an existing line.
-lN - Line number for the line to write/modify/delete.
-sN - Operates on a line that matches the scanned <text>.
-wN - Operates on a line that matches the scanned <wildcard> pattern.
-r - same as -w - but uses a regular expression match.
-mN - TODO
Parameters
<line> - The line number to find.
<text> - The text to scan.
<wildcard> - Wildcard pattern to match.
</regex/> - Regex pattern to match.
<filename> - The file name to manipulate.
[text] - The text to be written to the file.
Example
alias example {
  ; Create a file and add a few lines of text to it.
  /write Example.txt this is a cool line
  /write Example.txt hello there!
  /write Example.txt text files are cool
  ; Locate the line that starts with "hello" and insert the following text before it.
  /write -is"Hello" Example.txt This will become line 2!
  ; Delete line 1.
  /write -dl1 Example.txt
}
Updated by Per Amundsen about 7 years ago · 15 revisions