Don¹t laugh so hard... Sed has saved my rear many times when my only access
to a barely running penguin was through the 3270 virtual terminal.
Learn enough sed so that you aren¹t caught sitting dumb-founded at the
terminal when your guest doesn¹t come up because you left some critical
option (or character) out of one of many various innocent-looking config
files.
btw: To this end, O¹Reilly has a whole series of ³Pocket Reference² guides
to various Unix-y things, including ³sed & awk Pocket Reference² and ³vi
Editor Pocket Reference², both by Arnold Robbins. These are very good
reference guides when you know what you want to do, you know that sed knows
how to do it, but you can¹t remember just which incantation will get sed to
do it.
These are great tools, easily overlooked among all the larger IT books on
the shelf, but whenever I see one that covers something I use (Perl, Regular
Expressions, PHP, Mac Tiger, CSS, HTML....) I get it and keep it close. They
take up about five inches on my bookshelf, but it¹s a very important five
inches. :-)
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same, but
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> From: Tom Shilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> You *could* learn sed instead <evil grin>
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