Martin Guy wrote:
However BSD ed, which I presume is derived from the original sources, if you $ ed /bun/ls w ls q $ you get an identical file, wthout aby newline-adding nonsense :)
What version of GNU ed have you tried this on? GNU Ed 1.6-rc1 writes an identical file, without any newline-adding nonsense.
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