Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-18 Thread Jefferson San Juan
For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. Such programs are usually used in shell scripts to parse out a

Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-18 Thread Rob
Eric F Crist asked on Sun Jan 18, 2004: For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. Logfiles and config files are

Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-18 Thread Scott W
Eric F Crist wrote: Hello group, For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. Depends on what your system is

Text parsing?

2004-01-17 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello group, For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612)

Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Haulmark
Hello group, For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc

Re: Text parsing?

2004-01-17 Thread Eric F Crist
On Saturday 17 January 2004 10:14 pm, Chris Haulmark wrote: Many of us all learn from several books, online articles, and other forms of documentations. For you, perhaps, you should have your own system with an UNIX/Linux operating system to experiment with. If you are going to mess with