On 07/08/2018 08:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[snip] In some threads I'm chided for lack of details. In this and other threads I lose for giving too many. Y'all will have admit that I did say "Subject line is poorly phrased." Having read the responses, my subject line my not be all that bad.A better subject/body might have been [How does one edit a piped in stream?] .I'll lay odds that I would be asked for more details.
A philosophically good answer to that phrasing might be: https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B%22sed%22%20%2B%22awk%22%20%2B%22stream%22%20%2B%22tutorial%22Until this thread I didn't have concept of "stream editor", much less the existence of "sed".
I had heard of "AWK", but had an image of it being a regex parser.