Hello mark,

On 14 Jun 15 11:48, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> cat nodelist.000 | grep 'user_name'

 ml> grep it directly and save a step plus resources ;)

I don't care much for saving resources on a 6-core machine with
hyperthreading and 16gb ram.

 ml>      grep -Ei -e ",nicholas_boel," fido/nodelist/nodelist.145

 ml> then one can also get more specific looking in specific fields... for
 ml> example, i know they're in wisconsin and the node number i'm looking
 ml> for starts with a '7'...

 ml>      grep -Ei -e ".*,7.*,.*_wi,nicholas_boel,"
 ml> fido/nodelist/nodelist.145

 ml> ,701,Dark_Sorrow,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,MO,INA
 ml> :binkp.pharcyde.org,IBN:24555 ,702,Mystic_Test_System,Pewaukee_WI,Nich
 ml> olas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,INA:binkp.pharcyde.org,IBN:24556

More than one way to skin a cat and I went with the easiest, but thanks for
yet another one-upping. :)

Regards,
Nick

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