12-17-2007
Thanks Tytalus, I'll try it later. Looks a lot better than my commandlines.
If someone else has got another approach (using sed or awk completely alone), I'll appreciate that.
Anyway, I'm fine with Tytalus' solution, though.
Many thanks.
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