[Nottingham] Slow bash-ings for file line search

[Peter Chang]

Martin,

> I'm copying a text file line-by-line and wish to identify certain lines 
> to conditionally modify. (Hence why not sed or grep.)

If it's pattern matching then awk is probably what you need. Or perl or
python...

Regards,
 Peter



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