07-21-2008
SAMZ, until now you didn't tell us what you really want to achieve. The logic you used is ok, but - depending on what you want to do, the part inside "carry on doing what you want" - there may or may not be better solutions. We are able to help you only if we know exactly what you want to achieve.
Maybe your way (that is: to do it in shell script language) is good, because the shell is best suited to what you want to achieve. The other solutions (awk, sed, ...) may or may not be better suited than your solution because the respective tools may or may not be better suited to what you want to do - to finally assess this question we would need to know what you want to do.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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