On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Hella wrote:

> You want to use sed and awk for a truly robust solution.

a sadly-overlooked but useful text processing command is "expr".

$ man expr

which can do simple things like matching, extraction, length,
substr and stuff like that.  check it out before going on to sed,
awk, shell scripting or perl.  it's amazing how useful it can be.

rday



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