[olug] need some quick help with sed

[Matthew G. Marsh]

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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