Try awk tutorial on the web, even perl can help you in this
situation..deep
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Omer Ansari wrote:
> hi.
>
> 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?
>
> cheers,
>
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> Omer Ansari
> Network Engineer,
> Supernet PDSL
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