Piers Kittel (debian@biased.org) wrote on Thu, 31 May 2007 17:05:04 +0100:

>What's the best way to do this? I've been reading the man pages of
>sed, cut and awk but I can't quite figure out how to do this. Any
>ideas?

The sed man page is not very ful I'm afraid. A pretty good manual is
here: <http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html>.

Since you want to mask out various parts of your line you have to apply
sed to it various times, like this:

echo "your line" | sed (mask 1) | sed (mask 2) | sed (mask 3)

or, if your text comes from a file:

sed (mask 1) < yourFile | sed (mask 2) | sed (mask 3)

Hope this s.

G. Heinrich



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