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Herein lies my updates to the overstrike
command from B. W. Kernighan's The
Unix Programming Environment with modifications to fix problems after use in production.
Also included here is a script version of rmcr
. It is influenced by the Xenix
tool of the same name, but was written on the fly (and is preserved as I presented it) for
students in Belmont, Washington at the SQLsoft training center, where I was teaching an
introductory class on GNU/Linux (RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu). It was primarily to demonstrate the
correct, or classic Bell Labs', way of exception handling in shell scripting to avoid clobbering
the files you're modifying on the stream.