Re: Unix Tools

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 10/24/03

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    In article <3F99414A.5070803@Lucent.com>,
    Ed Morton <mortonAVOIDINGSPAM@Lucent.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >On 10/24/2003 9:12 AM, Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
    ><snip>
    >> And I have a fat Unix book that describes some of that stuff,
    >> like sed and awk but not Perl, that I plan to go through when I get Linux
    >
    >You could download cygwin (www.cygwin.org) while you're waiting...

    A cygmac would actually be more useful to me.

    >
    >> But Perl has been described as doing more than sed and awk
    >> together, removing the need to pipe things around between the two
    >
    >You never need to do pipe things between sed and awk since awk can do anything
    >sed can do. In the context of sed/awk solutions: for small things that sed can
    >do easily, only use sed, and for the rest only use awk.

    Okay.

    >
    > and the
    >> shell, so I wondered whether I even need to care about them. One thing I
    >> have in mind is a fairly elaborate e-mail filter that can keep tallies,
    >> filter on attachments, send notifications of spam deletions, recognize
    >> spoofed words like pe.n!s, which are things that slocal on my Sun shell
    >> account can't do, so off-hand Perl seemed like the one to use, based
    >> strictly on what I've read about it but no knowledge of it.
    >
    >No, procmail, formail and/or spamassasin are some tools for that job.

    None of those exist on my Sun account, only slocal, and I don't have a lot
    of disk space there. And rolling my own would likely be more
    instructional, so I thought I'd give it a try. 

    -- 
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