I want - need - for a shell script [1] to modify an xml file.
It's ASCII so I thought 'awk'. Got into it a bit and thought 'this is nuts', Then 'well poop I can't be the first guy to hit this pain point' so I went looking and would up here and holy jeezum crow I gotta learn an entire new language just to modify a stinkin' file?
Well, why not? It's how I learned the very modest amount of awk that I have in my skull.
Still. It's ASCII. I can cat that bitch and everything.
To slightly misquote my very first boss [2] in the LAN business 'It shouldn't be this hard'. But it is.
Improvise, adapt, overcome.
[1] Or PERL. Or Ruby, Python, Racket, something. Hell it can come wrapped up in a box with a pretty pink bow, whistling 'Dixie', I don't care. Long as my hell-spawned legacy linux liability can launch it.
[2] SSgt Lingle, 3D FSSG, Okinawa. Wonder where he is today? I actually learned more from my 2nd boss in the LAN business, MSgt Tim Martin but oh well.
It's ASCII so I thought 'awk'. Got into it a bit and thought 'this is nuts', Then 'well poop I can't be the first guy to hit this pain point' so I went looking and would up here and holy jeezum crow I gotta learn an entire new language just to modify a stinkin' file?
Well, why not? It's how I learned the very modest amount of awk that I have in my skull.
Still. It's ASCII. I can cat that bitch and everything.
To slightly misquote my very first boss [2] in the LAN business 'It shouldn't be this hard'. But it is.
Improvise, adapt, overcome.
[1] Or PERL. Or Ruby, Python, Racket, something. Hell it can come wrapped up in a box with a pretty pink bow, whistling 'Dixie', I don't care. Long as my hell-spawned legacy linux liability can launch it.
[2] SSgt Lingle, 3D FSSG, Okinawa. Wonder where he is today? I actually learned more from my 2nd boss in the LAN business, MSgt Tim Martin but oh well.
