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BAWK, A GREP-based text pattern search and replace facility.

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A new utility is on UTL$EXE:

It is BAWK.EXE.

BAWK scans text files for regular expression patterns and executes
a user-defined action (C code fragment) for each specified pattern found. 

This can be a very useful utility for converting files, and doing complex
mass (batch) editing tasks.


The documentation file is in CHARM$USERDISK:[morris.st.cug.tools]BAWK.DOC.

Its is usually well worth the time to figure out how to use this program.

			Jim.
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Sep 04, 1987