06-25-2013
Damn, thanks again!
This works perfectly, although in this case I initially wasn't sure why it worked. But now I realize: you use the first as anchor character "^" to define, that at the beginning of the line the following expression in '(...)' must follow. I was confused initially as the grymoire docs described the anchor to be used "on the beginning of a line" - and then I wasn't sure where the "line" was in this case. Was it the original "$line" or the splitted parts of the line? Obviously in this case every splitted part is its own "line". Thats why it works. Eventually I understood
Regarding Perl: yeah, there was the choice between perl or bash scripts and then the thought came "use something which is always available and more down-to-earth" - and the decision fell to default shell scripts.
While it is an interesting learning experience I have previously used some perl and it was way more comfortable. I am not sure the pure shellscripting decision was right after all, especially seeing that perl is installed on most unix machines anyways...sigh, but what can you do.
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