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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk replacement Post 302357005 by cfajohnson on Monday 28th of September 2009 11:31:40 AM
Old 09-28-2009

Why do you want to use sed? Is this homework?

Awk is the right tool for the job. (But get rid of those UUOCs.)
 

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