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Linux and UNIX - Fast command line editing examples using cat, ed, and sed. Here is why you need to use command line editing tools...
#1: Text editor takes time for small editing
#2: Use command line editing
#3: Save time and impress your friends [ read as look like an elite UNIX hacker 
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Take a quick look at some essential editing one-liners that can save you time and effort. Text-editing operations are normally done interactively, inside a text editor application. Some tasks, however, can be accomplished quickly and easily, right from the UNIX(R) command line. What's more, these one-liners can be used in scripts to automate various editing procedures.
This article demonstrates basic text-editing techniques with three of the most primary command-line editing tools readily available on all systems: cat, ed, and sed. The editing examples that follow start with the simplest and most common constructs and work up to the more complex.
You may also find this small shell script handy - to replaces all occurrence of javascript from HTML file 
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I am facing problem while checking the text file in linux which is starting with minus sign
Example:
cat “-abc.txt”
Please send me the reply at your earliest.
Thanks,
Anil.Alpati
Atleast one among the following should work
cat ?abc.txt
cat “-abc.txt”
cat \-abc.txt
Else you may rename that file to something normal by opening it in vi with command like:
vi *abc.txt and when the required file opens in the vi, save it with a normal name.