Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: >>> 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... > > Ick. I hate perl. It's easy to hate perl that other people have written, but you can write your own in whatever style you like. > If I find something I can't do in bash/sed/awk, I just code it in C :) You can write perl that looks like C - but if you aren't using hashes and regexps you'll do a lot more work. And pretty much everything that anyone might need to do has already been written and is available on CPAN. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com