Re: File Manipulation in Linux

Joe Cipale wrote:
ynotssor wrote:
In news:eph5v131g79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Joe Cipale <joec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would have offered to use a combo of 'awk' and 'grep'. One script
and multiple output files
Why use grep? awk has excellent pattern-matching capabilities:

awk '/name_/ {print $3}' file1 > file2

Of course they do...

That is the cool thing about Unix/Linux: For each problem there are AT LEAST a half-dozen
ways to solve it. M$ havent figured that aspect out yet though. :)

Every linux distro is an M$ solution.

There is no margin in giving away low level tools.

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