On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:56 pm, civileme wrote: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:55 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > > At 09:28 AM 2/6/2003 -0900, you wrote: > > >On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:13 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > > > > > matter which machine I'm on in the future (be it a friends with > > > > > linux on it who's fubared X, or my own) I can edit files & cfgs > > > > > quickly & painlessly. > > > > <snippers> > > > > >I have it on my system and also on floppy (DOS compatible). It takes up > > > very little space, even with source, and runs from a 12K file on my > > > system. > > > > > >It is not likely to be installed, but that is a relatively quick matter > > > to fix. What it took for 9.0 was copying its binaries to /usr/bin > > > (doesn't depend on any external libs) It even has an "Undo". > > > > > >Now the one caution is that for supporting regular expressions it pipes > > >through sed, so knowledge of sed is necessary to support regular > > > expression manipulations. > > ><snip> > > > > > >Civileme > > > > Ok... thats sounds tres cool to me :) > > > > Thx CM. Question: what are regular expressions ? And sed? Heard of > > it... but no clue what it is... I'll look it up later. The "regular > > expressions" has me stumped though mostly. > > > > ------------- > > FemmeFatale > > > > Good Decisions You boss Made: > > "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that > > character from Peanuts." > > > > - Source: Dilbert > > man sed > man regexp > > A regular expression is something like > ^[K][k].*retry\ [[:lower:]] > > Which would match lines starting with K or k and have "retry" followed by a > space and lowercase characters > > It allows for REALLY advanced searches and works well with grep egrep rgrep > etc. > > Civileme is this the stuff that makes the command line cool,,, or what...
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