On 04-Feb-99 Omer Ansari wrote:
> hi.
>
> I need to check up 1000+ files (mailboxes) for a line or two inside
> them, and then take action accordingly....deleting specific mails or the
> whole mailbox if need be. I know that awk and sed would be quite useful
> in script programming in this scenario. Problem is, i know jack about
> the awk and sed. The man pages got me more confused.
>
> Anyone with any URLs/docs which can help me learn these languages?
There's a book on awk by O'Reilly. There's also an article in the July 96 issue
of Linux Journal which describe how to use awk and sed.
If the script you need isn't _too_ complicated, let me know what you'll need and
I'll be glad to provide a sample awk script which you can use and learn from.
Awk is pretty easy to learn, a few good example scripts should be enough to get
anyone started provided the user have some basic programing skills. The man
pages should be sufficient to cover most of the rest.
Cort
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