[olug] need some quick help with sed

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and the winner is....


         bloatedpostID="$(echo -e`cat ../xml/slauce.xml | grep postID`)"
         postID="$(echo `echo $bloatedpostID | *sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'`)"*

obi-wan...much thanks.
 let me know if you have some time for sed lessons.

more thanks to everyone else that dropped a line. i've tried a few of them
and all worked so far, but this sed command plugged in nicely to my meager
attempt at it...

my comments on sed documentation were best summed up by bruce barnett who
said this in his grep tutorial <http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html>..

*"... sed is a marvelous utility. Unfortunately, most people never learn its
real power. The language is very simple, but the documentation is terrible.
The Solaris on-line manual pages for **sed are five pages long, and two of
those pages describe the 34 different errors you can get. A program that
spends as much space documenting the errors than it does documenting the
language has a serious learning curve. "*




On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Matthew G. Marsh
<olug4mgm at paktronix.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Kevin D. Snodgrass wrote:
>
> <snip>real reason for post</snip>
>
> > I know there is a better way... sed is a wonderful tool, wish I could
> > remember more of what it can do.  But all the useful docs seem to be in
> > "info" format nowdays, which I despise at a level most people cannot
> > understand.  (info sucks big donkey *&^$@!!!)
>
> Hallelujiah!!!!!   I have converted more info files into man, html, etc
> than I can remember. Info is another GNU scourge (do it our way or the
> highway thinking).
>
> Now before the wee little flamies fire up - GNU software is very good, GNU
> attitude as exemplified by the utter lack of consideration for any other
> way than that of the GNU, oft succinctly stated as fanaticism, is bad, and
> one of the reasons OSS often has/had difficulty in acceptance.
>
> For a solid grounding in GNU attitude just read the intro to info (a
> "better" man) and realize that the info reader is not a little program but
> a version of emacs (which is near and dear to me but that is a different
> flame war) and then read a man page for a utility where the main text is a
> printout of utility -h followed by the smarmy "the real doc is in info"
> line. Of course this does presume that you use a command line. If you only
> use X then ignore this discussion and go back to your windows^WX
> session WWW browser and just dig up the formatted 'html from info' page in
> goog...
>
> Of course I do fantasize about putting Theo and RMS in a deathmatch
> cage and watching the fireworks... but I digress.
>
> > zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
> >
> > Kevin D. Snodgrass
>
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