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General Software Discussion / Re: anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?
« on: October 06, 2005, 08:21 AM »
Stefan mentioned SED and AWK, which are both command-line text manipulation tools. SED is the simplest, and is best used for regular expression search and replace. AWK is its own little programming language, and is a more powerful than SED, but much lighter than Perl.
I spent a lot of time exploring text manipulation tools a few years back. I ended up using AWK and Perl for most things, but then I found Datamystic's TextPipe Pro (shareware, $299) http://snipurl.com/leapfrog_textpipe, for it's power and ease of use. I became such a fan of the product that I have since become a reseller.
I might be able to work out a discount deal on TextPipe for DonationCoder members only... Mouser, I will contact you about this offline.
I spent a lot of time exploring text manipulation tools a few years back. I ended up using AWK and Perl for most things, but then I found Datamystic's TextPipe Pro (shareware, $299) http://snipurl.com/leapfrog_textpipe, for it's power and ease of use. I became such a fan of the product that I have since become a reseller.
I might be able to work out a discount deal on TextPipe for DonationCoder members only... Mouser, I will contact you about this offline.