[2013-02-12 14:27] Truls Becken <truls.bec...@gmail.com> > On 2013-02-12, at 13:22, Chris Down wrote: > > > Considering he's already doing rudimentary filtering through in *addition* > > to sed calls, awk is more generalisable choice to the problem set. > > Alternatively, you could say that sed is the more generalisable choice since > grep is pretty much a subset of sed.
I disagree because grep (with -E or as egrep) does support Extended Regular Expressions, which sed does not. The following is NOT portable: > sed -E 's/\s\+// ; /"(vim|surf):"/d' http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sed.html If you want sed with Extended Regular Expressions, take awk. :-) meillo
