Mark Perry wrote:
you are aware that sed (and perl) has a -i command line option to create a backup?
_I_ am. I figured my way before I learned of Perl's text editing capabilities, but since my technique works well and I understand it, I'm not tempted to perl. I know that with my shell script I can revert to the original after any number of attempts to "fix," it and that I'm always working on (a copy of) the original.
from the 3270 console I usually use perl. mark
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