Yes that works thank you very much. I didn't output the results to a file though I just had it present them on the screen,
Now what I'm going to try and do is save the command as an alias so that I can cat any file and pipe it into the alias and it will do this for me.
Only thing I'm having difficulty with is getting it to ask me for the variable and use that in the SED command. I can't think of any way I could do it by doing a simple
So I may have to just a straight up alias that asks me for 2 variables. the file and word. Not as easy to slip in but you do what you can I guess.
I have the command working if I specify the variable ahead of time. But ideally the word(s) I will want is going to vary all the time.
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Can someone explain why the printf command is enclosed in ` and not a single quote ' ? What is the difference there. I mean it doesn't work if I use single quotes and the other character I don't even know specifically what that is called. I've never used it in any other command i've written.
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GNU sed version 4.1.4 on Windows XP SP3 from GnuWin32
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
ali
ali(1) General Commands Manual ali(1)NAME
ali - list mail aliases (only available within the message handling system, mh)
SYNOPSIS
ali [-alias aliasfile] [-help] [-[no]list] [-[no]normalize] [-user useraddr] [-nouser] [aliases...]
OPTIONS
Specifies the alias file to be consulted by ali. You can specify more than one alias file, but each aliasfile must be preceded by -alias.
In addition to any alias files that you specify, ali consults the system alias file /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases.
You can set up an entry in your so that ali automatically consults an alias file. To do this, add the Aliasfile entry to your pro-
file. See mh_profile(4) for more information. Prints a list of the valid options to this command. Prints the addresses on separate
lines. If you do not specify the -list option, the addresses are separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible.
Instructs ali to try to track down the official hostname of the address. This can be suppressed by using -nonormalize. The default
is -nonormalize. Displays all the aliases that contain a specific name. Instead of listing the addresses that each given alias
expands to, ali lists the aliases that expand to include each given address. You must specify the complete user name that you have
used in your alias file.
The defaults for this command are:
-alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases -nolist -nonormalize -nouser
DESCRIPTION
The ali command searches the specified mail alias files for each of the given aliases. It creates a list of addresses for those aliases,
and displays that list on the screen.
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Location of your mail directory. Location of your personal alias file.
EXAMPLES
The following example shows how the -user option can be used to list all the aliases containing the address Parker@Venus: % ali -user
Parker@Venus Parker@Venus: Group, Reviewers, Badminton
FILES
The user profile. The system alias file. The system password file. The system group file.
SEE ALSO mh-alias(4)ali(1)