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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting On how to select the right tool for a given task Post 302247982 by ghostdog74 on Thursday 16th of October 2008 08:22:52 PM
Old 10-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

BTW, you don't want to use sed to work on a string.

Use sed for working on files and shell parameter expansion for manipulating strings.
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its perfectly all right to use sed on strings(as well as files of course).
 

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gtk-theme-switch(1)					      General Commands Manual					       gtk-theme-switch(1)

NAME
gtk-theme-switch2 -- program to preview and adjust your GTK+ 2.x theme SYNOPSIS
gtk-theme-switch2 [-h] [-p theme] [-i tarball] [-f font] [-d] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the gtk-theme-switch2 command, utility for managing GTK+ 2.x theme. The interface is simple; a "theme dock" is used to select the theme you wish to change to or preview, and then it is a matter of selecting what you want to do - apply it or preview it. OPTIONS
-h Show summary of options. -d Show the 'theme dock' (default.) -p [theme] Previews the specified theme, or installs it if in a tarball and then previews. -i [theme] Installs the specified theme, or installs it if in a tarball. -f [font] Change the GTK+ display font to font. SEE ALSO
None. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. created by instant / docbook-to-man, Sun 17 Aug 2003, 01:18 gtk-theme-switch(1)
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