[ale] Bash script question

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:43 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
>>Good deal.  I know you said not having to invoke AWK, but it's one of my 
>>favorite scripting languages, so I had to throw that one in.  I once 
>>wrote a language parser with AWK. :)
>>
> 
> Geezer with masochistic tendencies :)
> Probably _liked_ ed and thinks vi is overkill....

You know, I learned 'ed' first and was actually writing scripts using it 
to modified data as well as retrieve input.  Even wrote a crude editor 
that used 'ed' to modify input. :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey