From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 5:31: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E5D15408 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 05:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10Ncsc-000NPL-0B; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:30:35 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id NAA00306; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:29:51 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA05593; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:29:48 GMT Message-ID: <36F0FFB4.9EFDDF15@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:29:24 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed and newlines References: <199903172339.SAA06674@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19990318122811.11031.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Black wrote: > > the man page, which is one of the great masterpieces of obscurity[1]. > [....] > [1] How many people understood what they could do with "hold" > spaces and "pattern" spaces and how to shuffle stuff between > them on their first reading of the sed man page? And how > many then found they didn't understand it after all when > they tried to make it work? > Which probably explains why O'Reilly make a profit from a 400+ page book covering only sed and awk. -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message