On 5/27/05 7:38 PM, "PoolMouse" <poolmouse_nyc at mac.com> wrote: > Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> wrote: > >> [~] %% echo "$ATTACHMENTS" >> /Users/victor/Documents/Eudora Folder/Attachments Folder >> [~] %% echo "$ATTACHMENTS" | sed 's/ /\\ /' >> /Users/victor/Documents/Eudora\ Folder/Attachments Folder >> >> Learn and cherish thy unix tools. >> >> My favourites are sed, awk, make. >> >> V. > > where does one get a clifnote on sed/awk/make? I think the clifnotes would be man sed man awk man make Or you could pick up the novels http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/make2/index.html And as a Un*x guru once said to me, "man is your friend." pf