time to start learning bash scripting

[Stefan Jeglinski]

Hi All,

Thanks for the quick tips. This more than enough to get me started. I 
note that no one referred to awk, although perl cropped up. I suppose 
the problem is too easily solved without awk. Or is awk deprecated?

Something I don't get: perl is a self-contained scripting language, 
if you will. Am I correct in an observation that awk and sed seem to 
be more along the lines of a sophisticated command set that is used 
inside of [bash or perl] scripts, rather than separate languages?


Stefan Jeglinski