At 8:46 AM -0400 8/21/08, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>- read email addresses from a file in the format:
>
>user.name TAB domain.tld
>
>- convert it to:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>- write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT
I'm curious why Perl isn't a decent choice. I think I'd do something like
perl -pe 's/(.*?)\.(.*)\t.*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' input_file > output_file
Of course one could choose to actually run the output to the
input with appropriate Perl options but I don't normally do
that.
--
Walter M. Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wump Research & Company
676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470
541-672-8975
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
