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I found this to be a good command line text editing reference:

https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing



On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> On 03/04/2018 09:26 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> My eventual goal is to create a personalized FAQ.
>> To that end I've collected all my outgoing mail which DOES NOT have "Re:"
>> in the Subject into a single file {used standard SeaMonkey tools}.
>>
>> Using a text editor's search&replace function I've placed "KEY1" at the
>> beginning of the body of each message. Similarly, I've placed "KEY2" at the
>> end of each body.
>>
>> Searches led to <http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_16.html> which
>> describes tools to do word frequency tasks, primarily with bash builtins.
>>
>> First I need to eliminate the irrelevant text between "KEY2" of the
>> previous message and "KEY1" of the message of interest. It should be
>> straight forard to do in BASIC.
>>
>> But is there an already tested function for that?
>> TIA
>>
>
> I've received several suggestions.
> It appears that "vim" is closest to my "mind set".
> I went to the homepage and found ~half-dozen links.
> I found >dozen links to problems I hadn't mentioned.
>
> *FOR THE RECORD*
> Although EVERYTHING could solve stated problem, the vim homepage suggested
> solutions to problems I had not specified.
> I don't know ho they would take it, BUT the think like me.
>
> I've got up to a week's homework ...
>
> THANK YOU
>
>
>
>

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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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