My only regret was not learning regular expressions/sed/awk earlier. To anyone that is looking at this post wondering when they would ever use this kinda stuff. Do yourself a favor and learn it right away. You wont regret it.

And Eric’s posts a good place to start.

Thanks!

Thanks. I did mention this back in part 1. The appropriate way to handle this in Solaris is
perl -e s/foo/bar/g -i

I should be highlighting this more often, though. You’re right :)

One suggestion. Some of the flags (eg, -i in sed) may not be available in Solaris. It would nice to highlight this to your audience.

Thanks for your kind feedback. Escaping is dependent on your shell version, so it is something to keep in mind.

About #1 – I’ve emailed you a link to my upcoming design where all is happy and well contrasted ;) I guess I learned a good lesson in usability – do not color your forms because someones configuration isn’t going to display it like you want.

Second- I really like this series. It seems like most of my experience trying to learn these command line utils can be condensed down to someone giving me a full solution without explaining it (helpful, but not educational) that resembles PERL Golf to the degree that I can’t even begin to read it, or the elitist “Read the man pages”. This series of concrete, easy to follow examples are invaluable- You might want to consider publishing them as cheat sheets. The one problem I’ve run into so far is that the examples sometimes require different escaping mechanisms when run under cygwin in windows (ie, ; instead of \;), but a little trial and error usually irons that stuff out.

Thanks again:)

-Alex