editscript
nounUK /ˈɛdɪtskrɪpt/
US /ˈɛdɪtskrɪpt/
A set of written instructions that tells a computer how to change or fix a piece of text or a file.
The programmer wrote an editscript to clean up all the messy data in the file.
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2. A small program that automatically makes a series of edits to a document or dataset.
She ran an editscript to replace every old address with the new one.
3. In computing, a recorded list of changes that can be applied to a file to update it.
The editscript logged each correction so the team could review the changes later.
4. A text file containing commands for editing video or audio clips in a batch.
The editor used an editscript to trim all the clips at once.