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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:38:18 +0100
From:      Jefferson San Juan <Jefferson.San.Juan@hiMolde.no>
To:        ecrist@adtechintegrated.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Text parsing?
Message-ID:  <1074425898.400a702a980e5@hyse.himolde.no>

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> 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.

Such programs are usually used in shell scripts to parse out a part or some 
parts of a text output either from a text file or an output from a program 
such as ifconfig for instance.

- Jefferson

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