I haven't used awk in years (and I never used sed - but you want awk,
anway). Back when I did, I found the O'Reilly book _Awk and Sed_ invaluable.
BTW, I no longer use awk because I find perl offers the same functionality
(better, really) without the headaches of shell scripts + awk. You might
think about using perl for this project (even if that means learning perl).
At 06:36 AM 2/4/99 +0500, Omer Ansari wrote:
>I need to check up 1000+ files (mailboxes) for a line or two inside
>them, and then take action accordingly....deleting specific mails or the
>whole mailbox if need be. I know that awk and sed would be quite useful
>in script programming in this scenario. Problem is, i know jack about
>the awk and sed. The man pages got me more confused.
>
>Anyone with any URLs/docs which can help me learn these languages?
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