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Re: Does bash have a tool ?

From	John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Does bash have a tool ?
Date	2018-03-04 19:20 +0100
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Richard Owlett writes:
> I don't have any background in Perl and the last formal course in
> programming was in the 60's.

Perl is just bash, ed, sed, awk, grep, etc all smushed together into
one.

> However awk and/or sed may be what I'm looking for and are well
> documented.

It's exactly what those tools are for.  Don't forget the rest of the
toolkit.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-04 16:30 +0100
  Re: Does bash have a tool ? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-04 17:10 +0100
    Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-04 17:30 +0100
      Re: Does bash have a tool ? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-04 18:10 +0100
        Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-04 20:10 +0100
          Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-03-05 03:20 +0100
            Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-05 04:10 +0100
              Re: Does bash have a tool ? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-03-05 04:30 +0100
                Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-05 10:20 +0100
                Re: Does bash have a tool ? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-03-05 15:30 +0100
                Re: Does bash have a tool ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-05 16:20 +0100
                Re: Does bash have a tool ? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-03-05 18:10 +0100
            Re: Does bash have a tool ? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-05 05:40 +0100
      Re: Does bash have a tool ? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-03-04 19:20 +0100
        Re: Does bash have a tool ? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-05 02:00 +0100
          Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-05 04:20 +0100
      Re: Does bash have a tool ? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-03-05 06:50 +0100
        Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-05 10:10 +0100
          Re: Does bash have a tool ? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-03-05 11:20 +0100
  Re: Does bash have a tool ? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-04 18:30 +0100
    Re: Does bash have a tool ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-05 11:30 +0100
      A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-07 16:40 +0100
        Re: A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?} Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-07 22:10 +0100
          Re: A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-09 13:40 +0100
        Re: A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?} Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2018-03-09 14:20 +0100
  An answer - was [Re: Does bash have a tool ?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-03-05 01:00 +0100
    Re: An answer - was [Re: Does bash have a tool ?] Forest Dean Feighner <forest.feighner@gmail.com> - 2018-03-05 02:00 +0100
  Re: Does bash have a tool ? Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> - 2018-03-05 22:50 +0100

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