On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:50:33PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > Is that the basic approach? And isn't perl better for program-y things > anyway?
Nowadays, probably yes, in most circumstances. However: sed predates perl; and there are some environments (such as in the Debian installer) where perl is far too big so other tools have to be used instead. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]