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.
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> 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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