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.
"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...