Re: sed and awk

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > >I think they were covered in the Regular Expressions (regexes)
> > >presentation but I'd like to hear more...
> > >>I purchased the book from O'Riely that covers sed and awk.  I am
> > >>curious if people would be interested in a meeting presentation of
> > >>these two command line tools.  I would be willing to prepare a
> > >>presentation based on the information in the book.  It may be
> > possible
> > >>that the people who would be most likely to use these two tools are
> > >>already familiar with them.  Any comments?
> >
> > I think a relatively in-depth discussion of awk would be useful,  sed
> > was pretty much covered in the regular expression speech.  I think
> > just about everybody uses awk.
> 
> Perhaps we can break this down into Two subjects... using sed for a
> beginners meeting and awk at a non beginners meeting.
> 
> Thanks for speaking up Dirk!

sed isn't really a beginner's topic.  (neither is awk)

Just do the presentation.  It doesn't matter of some of the sed
stuff has been said before in a prior presentation.  We've had
whole presentations repeated before!

Dirk, let me know what you'd like for your free CD!   :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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