Seems like sed and grep could be implemented as filterreaders (see <http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html>). The LineContainsRegExp filterreader is already a solid foundation for grep. A little more implementation and a few params to support flags for inverse matching, number of before/after lines of context, ignore-case, etc. and you'd have 90% of grep.
A little sed "engine" would be a little harder but could also be done. How would you do it? You could pass sed one-liners as param values, or set a param value to the name of a file to read in with a sed script. Hmmm. Scott Stirling -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
