HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 138)

GET Command
EDIT Command Summary
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The syntax of the GET command to accomplish the second through fifth
items mentioned above is:
GET filename1 [ { line-range-list } ]
[ { NUM ordinal-range-list } ]
[ { PUT filename2 [ ! ] } ]
[ { TO { line [ BY incr ] } } ]
[ { { SAME [ KEEP ] } } ]
filename1
is the name of an EDIT file, the name of a nondisk device, or the name
of a non-EDIT-format disk file. The GET command accepts a full or a
partial file name. (See “How EDIT Files Are Named” in Section 6 for
information on file names.)
READ
tells the EDIT program to open filename1 with read-only access. If
you specify READ, the EDIT program rejects any command that
attempts to write to
filename1 (for example, ADD or FIX). You
cannot specify READ if you specify the ! character.
!
tells the EDIT program to get filename1 and to create it if it doesn’t
exist. EDIT doesn’t prompt you with a confirmation message. If you
specify !, you cannot specify any of the other optional parameters.
line-range-list
references one or more contiguous lines or blocks of text in an EDIT file.
Turn to “Line-Range-List Parameter” in Section 5 for a full explanation
of this range.