Re: a sed question

On 21.12.2024 19:21, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

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[...] I'm here on the USENET because I
discovered it in non-standard media.  It turns out I find NNTP a much
better medium of discourse than any other.  (I'm writing this from a GNU
EMACS buffer and will be send out using Gnus.  Gnus can be dramatically
uninuitive, but there seems to be no real replacement for it when it
comes to USENET and perhaps mail.)  [...]

There's tools like Thunderbird where you can work with Usenet similarly
to using a typical GUI-based email client (it is actually also an email
client). If you like historic tools I've heard that there's still 'nn'
around, a text-oriented newsreader that I used in the 1990's (loved it).

 
I actually know awk a little bit.  I've read the ``AWK Programming
Language'' by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, 1988.  I loved it.  [...]

This is an excellent source! So you might want to look into the GNU Awk
Manual just for a contemporary Awk variant, to see a couple more useful
features supported in an efficient Awk implementation.

Janis