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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: WANTED: A GOOD sed tutorial
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Date: 11 Dec 90 00:30:51 GMT
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In article <529@camco.Celestial.COM> bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
:In <109974@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
:>In article <9012061639.AA15782@lilac.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:
:>>I am in search of a sed tutorial...
:>Get the O'Reilly book.

:I'm not sure which O'reilly book Tom is referring to here,
:probably the Nutshell one.

Yes, it's called "Sed and Awk", and is a Nutshell Handbook by 
Dale Dougherty.

:I'm somewhat surprised Tom didn't refer you to perl which I find
:much easier to understand than sed when it comes to multi-line
:editing.

Well, you see, my ears are still ringing for getting knocked around for
bringing up the P word on the net.  Some people get really mad at me for
doing this.  But yes, it's much easier for more than one-liners.  In fact,
I translate big sed scripts with s2p so that I can read them more easily,
even old ones I wrote myself.

There will also be a Nutshell Handbook on perl out in about six weeks.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
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