FW: [Gllug] Awk Sed

[Bruce Richardson]

On 12/7/01, 2:55:11 AM, harry <postituk at yahoo.com> (by way of harry 
<postituk at yahoo.com>) wrote regarding Re: FW: [Gllug] Awk Sed:


> Put the following in a shell script
> #! /bin/sh
> sed -e 's/'$2'/'$3'/g' $1 > $1ff; more $1ff > $1; rm $1ff; rm *~
  sed -e "s/$2/$3/g" $1 > $1ff; mv $1ff $1

is a cleaner version.

> I need to learn more Perl as it keeps coming up as the best utility for 
the
> job on more occasions than I care to remember.

I've probably said before that I tend to use the smallest tool necessary 
for a job, so I always look at sed and awk before Perl.

-- 

Bruce

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