From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 08:34:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC3116A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:34:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED3D43D3F for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wegster@mindcore.net) Received: from mindcore.net (rdu162-234-100.nc.rr.com [24.162.234.100]) i0IGY9Yr007006; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:34:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <400AB581.9030202@mindcore.net> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:34:09 -0500 From: Scott W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031129 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com References: <200401172159.37521.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> In-Reply-To: <200401172159.37521.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text parsing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:34:15 -0000 Eric F Crist wrote: >Hello group, > >For what purposes will I find I need to use all these tools you write about? >I'm talking about awk, ed, ex, etc. I haven't found the need to do so, yet, >but I'd like to possibly learn this stuff before I really do need it. > > > Depends on what your system is used for- I've used the previously mentioned tools almost daily when working as a sysadmin- for monitoring disk qusage, process CPU usage, parsing output (log and standalone application one-time logs), install logs....you name it. Scott