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On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:17:01PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:31:08AM -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:27 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
> >>> $ sed '/bar/,+5d' xx
> >>> line 1
> >>> line 2
> >>> line after 6
> >>> line after 7
> >>>
> >> Beautiful man! Hats off. I've never used sed like that but I'll surely
> >> remember that one. Thanks from everybody.
> > "sed" is a very nice tool. You can do amazing things with it. I once did
> > a XML to HTML (limited) parser in it. I know someone that even coded
> > a "Sokoban"-like game with sed and nothing else.
> > Mastering sed really makes life much easier.
>
> If sed had been invented first we wouldn't have needed grep. Then again, if
> perl had been invented first we wouldn't need either - or a few hundred
> other tools...
Ick. I hate perl.
If I find something I can't do in bash/sed/awk, I just code it in C :)
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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
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