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Old 03-25-2013
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Originally Posted by Jotne
PS you have posted 12 post here, you should now that you need to use Code Tags
Thanks, will use them from now on Smilie

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I am amazed! Thanks a lot for your quick answers.
It looks to me that the awk solution is the more "portable" option, and since this needs to be used in many flavors of Linux/Unix, y expect to work ok.
I will report back
Very very very thank you to all of you.
Sebastian

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