[u801e]

I think the second line should start with

    1,/^--/ g...

Unless forward slashes aren't required to indicate a regex based address.

One thing I do to create my ed scripts is to actually read the output of ls with some file pattern and then use a vim macro to edit the output as follows:

    ed <<EOF
    e file1
    commands
    w
    e file2
    commands
    w
    ...
    wq
    EOF

The gnu info page for ed is a very good reference to determine what commands are available and how addressing works.

[seanhunter]

Yes you're right of course.