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.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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