[oclug] sed, awk, perl, or ...?

Joe Burpee jeb at burkby.com
Sat Mar 2 08:07:30 EST 2002


On Fri, 01 Mar 2002 at 10:01:42 -0500, Raymond Wood wrote:
> Joe, this 1-liner script works like a charm (but you doubtless knew that
> already :)  I am in a state of amazement... 

Me too!  Musta been your specs.  Often if a question is stated clearly,
the answer just drops out.

As you know there are other, perhaps slightly more transparent, ways of
solving your problem.  But IMO the find|xargs idiom has enough
advantages that it is really worth getting used to.

Joe



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