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Article #1059Re: Batch processing application
From: John Doherty
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 00:00
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In article <1d9jzsy.gw3zx21k1ng09N@pwomar.demon.co.uk>,
{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:
| I'm looking for some tools ont eh mac that will allow some serious text
| processing
Get MPW. It's free now.
| I particularly need to do the following:
|
| 1, I have an alaphetical text file (newsgroups) with lots of duplicate
| entries which I want removed, someone suggested I use Excel but it
| complained that the data had only one column.
With MPW, just say "sort -unique myfile".
| 2, I want to extract lines contianing a specific string to a text file
| or allow me to give it a string with wildcards (full regex even) to
| extract to a file.
With MPW, just say "search /pattern/ myfile > outfile". "pattern"
here can be a full regular expression.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: feb82,ee225ad6d82215f X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,ee225ad6d82215f X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: jdoherty@ix.netcom.com (John Doherty) Subject: Re: Batch processing application Date: 1998/05/25 Message-ID: <jdoherty-2505980046410001@aus-tx17-17.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 356243921 References: <1d9jzsy.gw3zx21k1ng09N@pwomar.demon.co.uk> Organization: (none) X-NETCOM-Date: Mon May 25 12:45:48 AM CDT 1998 Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps