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[Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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O'Reilly's "sed & awk" is a good manual about both,
altho it is geared towards the Unix/Linux thing.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/
Rob:

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On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Fitzgerrell Kevin wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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>
> > > BTW, if anyone knows of a good freeware program that will
> > automagically
> > > apply the ">" prefixes to all the lines of a text file, please let
> > me
> > > know about it.
> > AWK for DOS can be used for text manipulation. It comes from Unix
> > and is typically powerful but a bit geeky.
> sed for DOS is another easy way to do this at the command line.  Syntax
> varies a little with the different versions, but should look something
> like this:
> sed "s/^/> /" filename.ext > newfile.ext
> sed - calls the stream editor
> s - substitute command
> ^ is a regular expression matching the beginning of each line
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin FitzGerrell
>
>
>
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