Hello Kurt,

07 May 18 14:43 at you wrote to me:

 KW> sed has been on my list to rediscover for some time. I think "Sed and
 KW> Awk" was the first O'Reilly book I ever bought...

I know very little about either, honestly.  But I do scour Google for 
information.  Once I have my own place and a dedicated computer room, I'd like 
to get a few books on things like sed and awk because I know how terribly 
handy they are.

 KW> I've wanted to edit the argus.txt file to change Janis's uplink entry
 KW> in  a batch file, she's listed on the bink port, but feeding me on
 KW> 24555. Any nodelist changes involve me updating the file by hand, and
 KW> I used to be able to do that kind of scripting in my sleep. All I need
 KW> now is more sleep.    :(

I know sed and awk could do it.  I hear you on the sleep.  I am getting eight 
hours of sleep but still feeling worse than I did when I went to bed 
earlier...

Later,
Sean

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