Am 24. Aug, 2000 schwäzte J.L.Francois so:

> I just took a look thru my copy of
> Mastering Regular Expressions ( O'Reilly ) a.k.a The Owl Book.

Good book.

> It looks like this can be done in bash but I am not willing to spend 
> the time creating something that no one will ever be able to 
> read or modify. It looks a lot easier in Perl.

The sed option works well and, I believe, has less overhead than perl.

danke,

der.hans
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