On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 02:38 , kent ho wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> Kent
I will admit that I pulled out my copy of the
O'Reilly "Sed and Awk" - which I would recommend
if you are going to be in that space long.
Alternatively, you might look into perl
open(IN, "$file") or "die unable to open $file for input: $!\n";
open(OUT, "> $outfile) or die ....
while(<IN>) {
last if /$MONTH/;
print OUT $_;
}
close(IN);
close(OUT);
Since the odds are reasonably high, that if you
have arrived at a place where you need to pass
variables into sed scripts in a shell script
that you are rushing into a level of complexity
where being able to do the rest of the work
will become easier to maintain in perl.
ciao
drieux
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/
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