[CentOS] grep

[Les Mikesell]

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:31:08AM -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:27 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
>>>   $ sed '/bar/,+5d' xx
>>>   line 1
>>>   line 2
>>>   line after 6
>>>   line after 7
>>>
>> Beautiful man! Hats off. I've never used sed like that but I'll surely
>> remember that one.  Thanks from everybody.
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> "sed" is a very nice tool. You can do amazing things with it. I once did
> a XML to HTML (limited) parser in it. I know someone that even coded
> a "Sokoban"-like game with sed and nothing else.
> 
> Mastering sed really makes life much easier.

If sed had been invented first we wouldn't have needed grep.  Then 
again, if perl had been invented first we wouldn't need either - or a 
few hundred other tools...

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