On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 14:17, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/12/2010 3:53 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Almost any introductory book on Linux/UNIX that covers the standard command line utilities (sed, awk, greg, egrep, tr, cut, etc) could have answered the questions he had.
I don't think you've actually looked at current introductory books. Everyone tries to combine the tutorial with the reference these days and ends up with something that doesn't quite work for either purpose. And none deal with the fact that you have to understand what the shell is going to do with your command line before you will be very good at understandin a man page for any other tool.
Perl's slogan: There's more than one way to do it.
Yes, but if you start wrong you'll probably end up wrong.
Possible. But hand-holding can only go so far.
oh, I forgot, emacs macros can do this too. Don't know of any gui tools that are worth having.
Try eclipse sometime.
For mangling text??!! I think your example is way off topic for this thread. Or for programming in a large environment? Possible, but not pertinent to this email thread.
Ken