Holden Hao said: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:35:07 +0800 (PHT) > Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Holden Hao wrote: >> .. >> > Any good reference for how sed works? So far I have not read any >> > good tutorial on its usage. A pointer would help. >> >> the only use i have for sed is as a one-liner regexp parser. :) > > Its just that the syntax is cryptic to me and it seems intimidating. I > want to learn a little sed to do some search and replace.
that's precisely the reason why perl gained so much popularity and the previously popular utilities like awk and sed were relegated to the background... if you want to do complicated things with awk/sed/sh, rather do them in perl (or PHP-command line, for people like me) -dre _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
