Piers Kittel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Thu, 31 May 2007 17:05:04 +0100: >What's the best way to do this? I've been reading the man pages of >sed, cut and awk but I can't quite figure out how to do this. Any >ideas?
The sed man page is not very helpful I'm afraid. A pretty good manual is here: <http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html>. Since you want to mask out various parts of your line you have to apply sed to it various times, like this: echo "your line" | sed (mask 1) | sed (mask 2) | sed (mask 3) or, if your text comes from a file: sed (mask 1) < yourFile | sed (mask 2) | sed (mask 3) Hope this helps. G. Heinrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
